Etymology

neutralise

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French neutraliser
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromneutraliser
  2. English todayneutralise

From French neutraliser (first attested in 1642). By surface analysis, neutral + -ise.

Words from the same roots

Frenchneutraliser all →

neutralize

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.