misprision

misprision · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰed-“to find; to seize, take; to hold”
2. Latin · derived fromprēndere
3. Old French · derived frommesprison
4. Anglo-Norman · derived frommisprision
5. Middle English · inherited frommisprision
6. English todaymisprision

From Late Middle English misprision, mesprision (“criminal offence or illegal action, especially one committed by a public official”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman misprision, mesprision, mesprison (“criminal offence or illegal action; error, mistake, specifically an error by a court”) [and other forms] (whence Late Latin mesprisio, misprisio), and Old French mesprison, from mespris (“contempt, disdain”) (modern French mépris) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Mespris is the past participle of mesprendre (“to misunderstand”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + prendre (“to take”) (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to seize, take; to hold”)).

misprision · noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*per-“before; in front; first”
2. Latin · derived frompretium“cost, price; value, worth”
3. Medieval Latin · derived frompretiō“to appraise, assess, value”
4. Late Latin · derived frompretiāre
5. Old French · derived frommesprisier
6. Middle French · derived frommespriser
7. Anglo-Norman · derived frommespriser
8. Middle English · inherited frommesprise
9. English todaymisprision

From misprize (“to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state), probably influenced by misprision (etymology 1). Misprize is derived from Middle English mesprise, mespryse, from Anglo-Norman mespriser, Middle French mespriser, and Old French mesprisier, mesproisier (“to disdain, scorn; to despise, hate”) (modern French mépriser), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + priser, prisier (“to appraise, value”) (from Late Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“to consider valuable, esteem, prize, value”), Medieval Latin pretiō (“to appraise, assess, value”), from Latin pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before; in front; first”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

Words from the same roots