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Where does “deprived” come from?

Deprived comes from Old French depriver, Medieval Latin deprivo, Latin de and privus, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European per.

deprived (English): Subject to deprivation; poor; past participle of...

Definitions

  1. Subject to deprivation; poor; past participle of...

Ancestry of “deprived”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdepriveTo take something away from and keep it away; to...

Words derived from “deprived”

  • prived
  • nondeprived
  • undeprived
  • deprivedly
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