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disinvest

Meaningto strip out of holdings

Common meaning: to withdraw money that had been put into something

‘apart, away’ + ‘in, into’ + ‘clothing, a garment’ → disinvest

Journey through time

  1. Latinvestis, -is‘clothing, a garment’
  2. Frenchinvestiture
  3. Englishdisinvest‘to withdraw money that had been put into something’ · today

dis- also in: disarmdiscerndiscorddisdaindisgust

in- also in: incestinciteinduceinfamyinfant

vest also in: reinvestmentdisinvestment

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 vestis ‘clothing, a garment’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry vestis, p. 1981 · dictionary scan

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