Etymograph

English

debug

From de- + bug.

A compound of de- + bug

Latin dē ‘of; from’

English de-

Middle English bugge ‘scarecrow, hobgoblin’

English bug

Today it means

verb To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

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