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- Latin · borrowed fromdēprecātus
- English todaydeprecate
Borrowed from Latin dēprecātus, perfect active participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).
Words from the same roots
Latindēprecātus all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.