palliative

The story

1. Latin · derived frompallium“a cloak”
2. Medieval Latin · derived frompalliō“to cloak”
3. New Latin · derived from*palliātīvus
4. Middle French · borrowed frompalliatif
5. English todaypalliative

From Middle French palliatif, from New Latin *palliātīvus, from Medieval Latin palliō (“to cloak”), from Latin pallium (“a cloak”).

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