Etymology

decolorate

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Today it means: To decolor; to deprive of color. Full definition →

English colorate ← Middle English colour ← Anglo-Norman colur
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱélōs
  9. Proto-Italic*kelōs
  10. Old Latincolōs
  11. Latincolor
  12. Old Frenchcolor
  13. Anglo-Normancolur
  14. Middle Englishcolour
  15. Englishcolor
  16. Englishcolorate
  17. English todaydecolorate

From de- + colorate.

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