English
abnegate
Abnegate may come from Latin abnegō ‘to refuse, reject’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabnegō‘to refuse, reject’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1875abnegate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabnegō‘to refuse, reject’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1875abnegate
Earliest quotation: 1875, Brownson's Quarterly Review: “All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.”
A compound of ab ‘away from’ + negō ‘to deny’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘away from’
Proto-Indo-European *né ‘not’
Proto-Indo-European *méh₁ ‘prohibitive particle: "don't ...!"’
Proto-Indo-European *néh₁
Proto-Italic *nē ‘not’
Archaic Latin nei
Latin ne ‘not’
Latin negō ‘to deny’
first attested First attested in 1657 (as stated in the etymology)
The story
First attested in 1657.
Every English word from Latin abnegō
Today it means
verb To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin abnegō / abnegate