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- Late Latin · derived fromdēpretiātus / dēpreciātus
- Middle English · inherited fromdepreciaten
- English todaydepreciate
Inherited from Middle English depreciaten, borrowed from Late Latin dēpretiātus / dēpreciātus, perfect passive participle of dēpretiō / dēpreciō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + pretium (“price”) + -ō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.