abrogate
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abrogate
- /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/ UK
- /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡeɪt/ UK
- /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/ US
- /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪt/ US
- /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/ UK
- /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/ US
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵósder.
Proto-Indo-European *preḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *prokos
Latin procus
Latin procō
Latin rogō
Latin abrogō
Latin abrogātusder.
Middle English abrogat
English abrogate
First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.
verb abrogates · abrogating · abrogated · abrogen
- To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal. But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.
- To put an end to; to do away with.
- To block a process or function.
adjective abrogen
- Abrogated; abolished. Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that
