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Digress

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to depart temporarily from the main topic in speech or writing
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Stage 1 of 2
digredi
Latin · ancient
"to step apart, to depart"
to step apart, to depart from a path, from dis- (apart) and gradi (to step)
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Stage 2 of 2
digress
English · 1400s
"to depart temporarily from the main topic"
settled as the English word for departing from the main topic
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