Etymology

depatriate

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Today it means: To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish or expatriate. Full definition →

Medieval Latin dispatriō
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The story

  1. Medieval Latin · borrowed fromdispatriō
  2. English todaydepatriate

From de- + Latin patria (“fatherland”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an altered borrowing from Medieval Latin dispatriō.

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