Etymology

decentralise

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Today it means: To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points. Full definition →

English centralise ← 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. Englishcentralise
  8. English todaydecentralise

From de- + centralise.

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