transmissible (adj.)

"send over, onward, or along," c. 1400, from Latin transmittere "send across, cause to go across, transfer, pass on," from trans "across, beyond" (see trans-) + mittere "to release, let go; send, throw" (see mission). Related: Transmitted; transmitting.

word-forming element making adjectives from verbs, borrowed in Middle English from Old French -ible and directly from Latin adjective suffix -ibilis (properly -bilis); see -able.

1650s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + transmissible. Related: Intransmissibly; intransmissibility.