abdicate
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abdicate
- /ˈæb.dɪˌkeɪt/ UK
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱs
Proto-Italic *-diks
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -dicōbf.
Latin dicō
Latin abdicō
Latin abdicātusbor.
English abdicate
First attested in 1532; borrowed from Latin abdicātus (“renounced”), perfect passive participle of abdicō (“to renounce, reject, disclaim”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to dīcō (“to say”). Compare Middle English abdicat (“forsaken, renounced”).
Compare typologically abandon, Russian отказа́ться (otkazátʹsja), отре́чься (otréčʹsja).
verb abdicates · abdicating · abdicated
- To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
- To depose.
- To reject; to cast off; to discard. [W]e were legally call'd by his Majeſties writ to give our Attendance in Parliament, […] if we did not, we ſhould betray the Truſt committed to us by his Majeſtie, and ſhamefully betray and abdicate the due right both of our ſelves and Succeſſours.
- To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy
- To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
