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Eject

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to forcefully expel or throw something out
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Stage 1 of 2
eicere
Latin · ancient
"to throw out"
to throw out, from ex- (out) and iacere (to throw)
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Stage 2 of 2
eject
English · 1500s
"to forcefully expel or throw something out"
settled as the English word for forcefully expelling something
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