Etymology

appellate

A1P3P3E1L1L1A1T1E1

Today it means: That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court. Full definition →

Latin appellātus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromappellātus
  2. English todayappellate

From Latin appellātus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.