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	—
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

Words derived from “incarcerate”

incarcerator
reincarcerate
incarcerable
disincarcerate
overincarcerate

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →

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