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- Latin · borrowed fromdēprecātus
- English todaydeprecated
From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.