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Where does “disfranchisement” come from?

Disfranchisement is derived from English disfranchise, Old French franchise, Latin -mentum and dis-, ultimately from Latin ex and Ancient Greek -ία.

disfranchisement (English): The act of disfranchising; The deprivation of the...

Definitions

  1. The act of disfranchising; The deprivation of the...

Ancestry of “disfranchisement”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdisfranchiseTo deprive someone of some privilege, especially...
2EnglishfranchiseThe right to vote at a public election or...
3Middle Englishfranchise—
4Old Frenchfranchisefreedom; nobleness; chivalry
5Old French-iseused to form feminine nouns, often denoting a...
6Latin-itia-ness, -ity
7Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
8Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
9Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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