The story
- Latin · derived fromablēgātus
- French · borrowed fromablégate
- English todayablegate
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“to send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“to dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.