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- Latin · borrowed fromdēglūtinātus
- English todaydeglutinate
First attested in 1609; borrowed from Latin dēglūtinātus, perfect passive participle of dēglūtinō (“to unglue”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + glūtinō (“to glue”), from gluten (“glue”) + -ō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.