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Where does “expiate” come from?

expiate (Latin) comes from Latin expio, from Latin piō, from Proto-Italic *pīāō.

expiate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...

Definitions

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of...

Ancestry of “expiate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinexpioI make amends or atonement for a crime or a...
2Latinpiō—
3Proto-Italic*pīāō—
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