Where does “debriefing” come from?
Debriefing comes from English debrief, itself from English brief and Latin de, ultimately from Latin brevis meaning short, traced to Proto-Indo-European mréǵʰus.
debriefing (English): The act of debriefing, or the state of being...
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- The act of debriefing, or the state of being...
Ancestry of “debriefing”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | debrief | To question someone after a military mission in... |
| 2 | English | de- | reversal, undoing, removing; Intensifying; from,... |
| 3 | Latin | dē- | of; from |
| 4 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 5 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 6 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |