Etymology

per procurationem

Today it means: by the agency of, especially when signing a letter in place of someone else Full definition →

Latin per procurationem ← ['la ',
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The story

  1. ['la · borrowed from',
  2. Latin · borrowed fromper procurationem
  3. English todayper procurationem

Borrowed from Latin per procurationem (“by the agency of/on the instruction of/by proxy”).

Words from the same roots

['la', all →

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