Where does “retaliate” come from?
Retaliate comes from Latin retaliatus, past participle of retalio, formed from the prefix re- and a root from Proto-Indo-European só and wer-.
retaliate (English): To do something harmful or negative to get...
Definitions
- To do something harmful or negative to get...
Ancestry of “retaliate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | retaliatus | — |
| 2 | Latin | retaliare | — |
| 3 | Latin | taliō | punishment equal to the injury sustained; retaliation |
| 4 | Latin | tālis | such |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | tód | demonstrative pronoun; that; it |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |
Words derived from “retaliate”