deploy

The story

1. Latin · derived fromdis-“apart”
2. Late Latin · derived fromdisplicāre“to unfold, display”
3. Old French · derived fromdesploiier
4. French · borrowed fromdéployer“to unroll, unfold”
5. English todaydeploy

Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.

Words from the same roots