Etymology

reluctant

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Today it means: Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something. Full definition →

Latin reluctāns
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromreluctāns
  2. English todayreluctant

Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns (whence -ant), present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”) (whence re-.

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