Etymology

debeak

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Today it means: To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. Full definition →

English beak ← Latin dē- ← Proto-Italic *dē
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Englishbeak
  8. English todaydebeak

From de- + beak.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.