English
deflect
Deflect comes from Latin deflecto ‘to bend or turn downwards or away’, and goes back to flecto.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflecto‘to bend’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeflecto‘to bend or turn downwards or away’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979deflect
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflecto‘to bend’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeflecto‘to bend or turn downwards or away’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979deflect
Earliest quotation: 1979, Rudy Kikel, Young Men: “Certainly there was much in the relationship itself that,…”
Linked words
through Latin flecto ‘to bend’
Today it means
verb To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flecto / deflect