The story
- Latin · derived fromdēnūntiō“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”
- Old French · derived fromdenuncier
- English todaydenounce
From Old French denuncier, from Latin dēnūntiō (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + nūntiō (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from nūntius (“messenger, message”). Doublet of denunciate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.