## Etymology
From Latin submissus ('lowered, humble'), past participle of submittere ('to lower, yield'), from sub- ('under') + mittere ('to send'), plus the English suffix -ive.

## AI Etymology
Submissive comes from Latin submissus ('lowered, humble'), past participle of submittere ('to lower, yield'), from sub- ('under') + mittere ('to send'), plus the English suffix -ive. The historical chain includes Latin sub and Latin mittere. The quoted older senses, "lowered, humble", "to lower, yield", "under", and "to send", supply the semantic anchors for submissive. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word submissive carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "inclined to yield to the authority or will of others". English derivatives include submissively and submissiveness; related English forms include submit, submission, and mission. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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