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Where does “deallocate” come from?

deallocate (English) comes from English allocate, from Latin allocatus, from Latin allocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

deallocate (English): To remove from the set of resources put aside for...

Definitions

  1. To remove from the set of resources put aside for...

Ancestry of “deallocate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishallocateTo set aside for a purpose; To distribute...
2Latinallocatusallocated
3Latinallocō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “deallocate”

  • deallocator
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →