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Where does “unflagrant” come from?

unflagrant (English) comes from English flagrant, from Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂g- — to smell.

unflagrant (English): Not flagrant

Definitions

  1. Not flagrant

Ancestry of “unflagrant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishflagrantObvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous; On...
2Middle Frenchflagrant—
3Latinflagrantemaccusative masculine singular of flăgrāns;...
4Latinflāgrāre—
5Latinfrāgrō—
6Proto-Italicfrāgrāō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰreh₂gro-—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰreh₂g-to smell
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