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- Latin · borrowed fromdīvellicātus
- English todaydivellicate
First attested in 1638; borrowed from Latin dīvellicātus, perfect passive participle of dīvellicō (“to pluck asunder”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- + vellicō, from vellō (“to pluck”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.