Etymology

dehumanize

D2E1H4U1M3A1N1I1Z10E1

Today it means: To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize. Full definition →

English humanize ← Middle English humayne ← Middle French humain
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Latinhūmānu
  8. Old Frenchumain
  9. Middle Frenchhumain
  10. Middle Englishhumayne
  11. Englishhuman
  12. Englishhumanize
  13. English todaydehumanize

From de- + humanize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.