English
ablegate
Ablegate comes from Latin ablēgātus ‘sent off or away, dispatched, having been…’, and goes back to ablēgō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEablēgō‘to send off or away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEablēgātus‘sent off or away, dispatched, having been dispatched’perfect passive participle of ablēgō
- Frenchc. 1600–presentablégate
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1660ablegate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEablēgō‘to send off or away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEablēgātus‘sent off or away, dispatched, having been dispatched’perfect passive participle of ablēgō
- Frenchc. 1600–presentablégate
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1660ablegate
Earliest quotation: c. 1660, R. Carpenter: “Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate,…”
A compound of ab ‘from, away from’ + lēgō ‘to dispatch, send on a commission’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘from, away from’
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- ‘to lie’
Proto-Indo-European *lḗgʰs
Proto-Italic *lēks ‘law’
Latin lēx ‘a formal motion for a law’
Latin lēgō ‘to dispatch, send on a commission’
Every English word from Latin ablēgō
Today it means
verb To send abroad.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ablēgō / ablegate