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Prejudice

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a preconceived opinion about someone or something, not based on reason or actual experience
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Stage 1 of 3
prae iudicium
Latin · ancient
"a preliminary judgment"
a preliminary judgment, from prae- (before) and iudicium (judgment)
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Stage 2 of 3
prejudice
Old French · medieval
"a judgment formed before the facts are known"
carried into French for a judgment formed before the facts are known
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Stage 3 of 3
prejudice
English · 1300s
"a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience"
settled as the English word for a preconceived opinion not based on reason
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