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Prevent

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to keep something from happening
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Stage 1 of 2
praevenire
Latin · ancient
"to come before, to anticipate"
to come before, to anticipate, from prae- (before) and venire (to come)
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Stage 2 of 2
prevent
English · 1400s
"to stop something from happening"
settled as the English word for stopping something from happening
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