Pronounced: skrooch, verb
Notes: I didn’t know that this was a real word
Yesterday’s word
The word deracinate means
- uproot
- to remove or separate from a native environment or culture (especially to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from)
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word came from middle French word deraciner, made up of de- and raciner (root), which came from the Late Latin word radicina, which came from the Latin word radic, a stem of radix (root). The first meaning above was the original meaning, but the second, more metaphorical, definition came into being.
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