English
abrogation
Abrogation comes from Latin abrogātiō ‘repealed’, and goes back to abrogo ‘to abolish, abrogate, annul (all parts)’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrogo‘to abolish, abrogate, annul (all parts)’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrogātiō‘repealed’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600abrogation
- Englishearliest quotation 1853same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrogo‘to abolish, abrogate, annul (all parts)’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrogātiō‘repealed’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600abrogation
- Englishearliest quotation 1853same form
Earliest quotation: 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: “[…] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of…”
A compound of ab ‘from’ + rogo ‘ask, inquire’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘from’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to stretch out’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵós ‘stretching’
Latin rogo ‘ask, inquire’
first attested First attested in 1535 (as stated in the etymology)
The story
First attested in 1535.
Every English word from Latin abrogo
Today it means
noun A repeal by authority; abolition.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin abrogo / abrogation