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- Latin · borrowed fromdēlibātus
- English todaydelibate
First attested in 1623; Borrowed from Latin dēlibātus, perfect passive participle of dēlibō (“to take away from, to taste from”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + libō (“to taste; to consecrate a liquid”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.