English
Genevate
From Geneva + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Formed from Geneva + -ate
Proto-Italic *joinikos
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Vulgar Latin ziniperus
Old French genevre ‘juniper’
Middle Dutch jenever
Dutch jenever
English Geneva
Today it means
verb To convert to puritanism (as it was practiced in Geneva).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Genevate