Where does “spoliacioun” come from?
spoliacioun (Middle English) comes from Latin spoliatio, from Latin spoliāre, from Latin spolium, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pel- — to split in two, split in half; to speak with a...
Ancestry of “spoliacioun”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | spoliatio | robbing, plundering |
| 2 | Latin | spoliāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | spolium | the skin or hide of an animal stripped off; the... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pel- | to split in two, split in half; to speak with a... |