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Expire

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to come to an end, or for a period of validity to run out
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Stage 1 of 2
exspirare
Latin · ancient
"to breathe out, to die"
to breathe out, from ex- (out) and spirare (to breathe)
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Stage 2 of 2
expire
English · 1400s
"to come to an end, or to die"
settled as the English word for coming to an end, or dying
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