Etymology

disorient

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Today it means: To cause to lose orientation or direction. Full definition →

French désorienter ← Latin orientem ← Proto-Italic *oriōr
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Middle Frenchdes-
  8. Frenchdés-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₃er-
  10. Proto-Italic*oriōr
  11. Latinorior
  12. Latinorientem
  13. Frenchorient
  14. Frenchorienter
  15. Frenchdésorienter
  16. English todaydisorient

Borrowed from French désorienter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.