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Disrupt

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to disturb or interrupt the normal course or continuity of something
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Stage 1 of 2
disrumpere
Latin · ancient
"to break apart"
to break apart, from dis- (apart) and rumpere (to break)
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Stage 2 of 2
disrupt
English · 1600s
"to disturb the normal course or continuity of something"
settled as the English word for disturbing the normal course of something
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