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dissever

Meaningdivide

Common meaning: split or separate

Journey through time

  1. Latinseparare‘divide’source
  2. Old Frenchmeaning shiftsdivide → to dis- severdessevrer‘to dis- sever’source
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsto dis- sever → separatedisseueren‘separate’source
  4. Englishdissever‘split or separate’ · 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 separare ‘divide’.

Roots

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