mandate

mandate · noun¹

1. French · semantic loan frommandat
2. Latin · borrowed frommandātum“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”
3. English todaymandate

First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”). Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.

mandate · verb²

1. Latin · borrowed frommandātus
2. English todaymandate

First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis.

mandate · noun³

From man + date.

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