different between omit vs pretermit

English

Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittere, present active infinitive of omitt? (“to let go”), from ob- + mitt? (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
2. (transitive) To fail to perform.
3. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

Synonyms

• (leave out or exclude): leave off, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (fail to perform):
• (take no notice of): disregard, ignore, pass, turn a blind eye

Related terms

• omission
• mission
• elide

Translations

Anagrams

• Mito, mito, mito-

Finnish

Verb

omit

1. Second-person singular indicative present form of omia.
2. Second-person singular indicative past form of omia.

Anagrams

• Timo, Tomi, moti, toim, toim., tomi

French

Verb

omit

1. third-person singular past historic of omettre

English

Etymology

From Latin praetermitto.

Verb

pretermit (third-person singular simple present pretermits, present participle pretermitting, simple past and past participle pretermitted)

1. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 21, section 6

     The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).

   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations

     The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• permitter, trip meter