Etymology

depasture

de·pas·ture
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Today it means: To eat up, consume; to strip. Full definition →

English pasture ← Middle English pasture ← Anglo-Norman pastour
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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*peh₂-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂sti
  9. Proto-Italic*pāskōr
  10. Latinpāscor
  11. Latinpastūra
  12. Anglo-Normanpastour
  13. Middle Englishpasture
  14. Englishpasture
  15. English todaydepasture

From de- + pasture.

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