English
segregate
Segregate comes from Latin sēgregātus ‘separated’, from gregō ‘to flock or group’, and ultimately from grex.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrex‘flock’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgregō‘to flock or group’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēgregō‘to separate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēgregātus‘separated’perfect passive participle of sēgregō
- Englishearliest quotation 1949segregate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrex‘flock’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgregō‘to flock or group’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēgregō‘to separate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēgregātus‘separated’perfect passive participle of sēgregō
- Englishearliest quotation 1949segregate
Earliest quotation: 1949, Agriculture Handbook: “[…] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.”
A compound of sē- + gregō ‘to herd, assemble’ + sēgregō ‘to separate, divide’
Proto-Italic *gʷregs
Latin grex ‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a swarm (of insects), etc’
Latin gregō ‘to herd, assemble’
Proto-Italic *gʷregs
Latin grex ‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a swarm (of insects), etc’
Latin gregō ‘to herd, assemble’
Latin sēgregō ‘to separate, divide’
Linked words
through Latin grex ‘flock’
through Latin gregō ‘to flock or group’
Today it means
adj Separate; select.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin grex / segregate