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- Latin · borrowed fromdīlāniātus
- English todaydilaniate
First attested in 1535; Borrowed from Latin dīlāniātus, perfect passive participle of dīlāniō (“to dilacerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- + lāniō (“to tear to pieces”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.