English
deprecate
Deprecate comes from Latin dēprecātus ‘averting, deprecating’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- ‘to ask’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preḱ-‘to ask’next step skipped: Latin dēprecor
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecātus‘averting, deprecating’
- Englishearliest quotation 1701deprecate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preḱ-‘to ask’next step skipped: Latin dēprecor
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecātus‘averting, deprecating’
- Englishearliest quotation 1701deprecate
Earliest quotation: 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra: “And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- ‘to ask’
prayer, pray, arrogant, arrogance, derogatory, precarious, prerogative, postulate, derogation, 26 more
Today it means
verb To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- / deprecate