Etymograph

English

deprecated

Deprecated comes from Latin dēprecātus ‘averting, deprecating’, and goes back to dēprecor ‘to pray against, pray for, intercede for,…’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecor1‘to pray against, pray for, intercede for, rarely imprecate’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecātus1‘averting, deprecating’past participle of dēprecor
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1926deprecated1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English deprecated
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1926, H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: “But much more to be deprecated than all the…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecorWiktionary, English deprecated‘to pray against, pray for, intercede for, rarely imprecate’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēprecātusWiktionary, English deprecated‘averting, deprecating’past participle of dēprecor
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1926deprecatedWiktionary, English deprecated. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1926, H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: “But much more to be deprecated than all the…”

A compound of de ‘off’ + precor ‘to pray’

Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- ‘to ask’

Proto-Italic *preks

Latin prex ‘request, petition, prayer’

Latin precor ‘to pray’

Every English word from Latin dēprecor

Today it means

adj Strongly disapproved of.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “deprecated”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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