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Instruct

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to teach someone, or to give them an authoritative direction
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Stage 1 of 2
instruere
Latin · ancient
"to build into, to equip"
to build into, to equip, from in- (into) and struere (to build)
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Stage 2 of 2
instruct
English · 1400s
"to teach or direct someone"
settled as the English word for teaching or directing someone
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