Where does “incarcerate” come from?
Incarcerate comes from Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare meaning to imprison, from Latin in- and a root related to Proto-Indo-European sek- meaning to cut or separate.
incarcerate (English): To lock away; to imprison, especially for...
Definitions
- To lock away; to imprison, especially for...
Ancestry of “incarcerate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | incarceratus | incarcerated |
| 2 | Latin | incarcerare | to imprison |
| 3 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 4 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |