Etymology

expulsion

E1X8P3U1L1S1I1O1N1

Today it means: The act of expelling or the state of being expelled. Full definition →

Middle English expulsioun ← Old French expulsion ← Latin expulsio, expulsionem
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromexpulsio, expulsionem
  2. Old French · derived fromexpulsion
  3. Middle English · inherited fromexpulsioun
  4. English todayexpulsion

From Middle English expulsioun, from Old French expulsion, from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.