## Meanings
1. To agree that something is true, often unwillingly.
2. To allow someone to enter a place, or to join a school, hospital, or organization.
3. To have room for a particular number of people or things.

## Examples
- He finally admitted that he had made a mistake.
- The guard admitted the guests one by one.
- The hall can admit up to five hundred people.

## Derived Forms
- admittable
- admittance
- admittedly
- admittee
- admitter
- admitting
- admittingly
- coadmit
- nonadmitted
- preadmit
- re-admit
- readmit

## Related Forms
- admissible
- admission
- mission

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *mey- (change)
- Root: admitten
- Root: admettre
- Root: admittō
- Affix: ad- - to

## Etymology
From Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”).

## AI Etymology
Admit comes from Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- plus mittere (“to send”). The historical line also includes Proto-Indo-European *mey- (change). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix.

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