Where does “despoil” come from?
Despoil comes from Old French despoillier, from Latin despoliare, formed from the prefix de- and Latin de, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European de.
despoil (English): To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from; To...
Definitions
- To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from; To...
Ancestry of “despoil”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | despoillier | to strip; to get undressed |
| 2 | Latin | despolio | I rob, plunder or despoil |
| 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 |