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confute

Meaningrepress or refute

Common meaning: prove an argument wrong

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GHU‘pour’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 121, p. 734 · scan
  2. Latinconfutare‘repress or refute’source
  3. Frenchconfuter‘refute’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsrefute → prove an argument wrongconfute‘prove an argument wrong’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin confutare ‘repress or refute’.

Roots

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