Where does “debrief” come from?
Debrief comes from English brief, from Latin de combined with Latin brevis meaning short, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mréǵʰus.
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Definitions
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Ancestry of “debrief”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | de- | reversal, undoing, removing; Intensifying; from,... |
| 2 | Latin | dē- | — |
| 3 | Latin | dē | — |
| 4 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 5 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | posti | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
Words derived from “debrief”