Etymology

adore

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Today it means: To worship. Full definition →

Middle English *adoren ← Old French adorer ← Latin adōrō
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromadōrō“to pray to”
  2. Old French · derived fromadorer
  3. Middle English · inherited from*adoren
  4. English todayadore

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“to pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“to speak”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.