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- Latin · derived fromcorruptus
- Middle English · inherited fromcorrupten
- English todaycorrupt
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.