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English word promise comes from Latin promittere, and later Latin promissum (Promise.)

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promittere (Latin)

promissum (Latin)

Promise.

promissa (Malayalam)

promesse (Old French)

Promise.

promis (Middle English)

promise (English)

(countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has been assigned a value.. (countable, [...]

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