English
de-
De- comes from Latin dē ‘of’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdē‘of; from’
- Englishtodayde-
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdē‘of; from’
- Englishtodayde-
The story
For sense development, compare Old English æf-, which was a similar prefix.
Linked words
through Latin dē ‘of’
deserve, desire, dice, departmental, dorado, deprive, deduce, 7 more
Today it means
prefix reversal, undoing
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin dē / de-