## Meanings
1. To give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider.
2. To agree to obey someone or accept their power, often unwillingly.
3. To suggest or state something, especially formally.

## Examples
- You must submit your application by Friday.
- They refused to submit to the new rules.
- I submit to you that the accused is innocent.

## Derived Forms
- resubmit
- resubmitter
- submittable
- submittal
- submitter

## Related Forms
- mission
- submission
- submissive

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *mey- (change)
- Root: submitten
- Root: submittere

## Etymology
From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.

## AI Etymology
Submit is from Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend. In present-day use, it can mean to give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider, or to agree to obey someone or accept their power, often unwillingly.

## Topics
- Law & Government

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