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Promote

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to raise someone to a higher rank, or to support and advertise something
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Stage 1 of 2
promovere
Latin · ancient
"to move forward"
to move forward, from pro- (forward) and movere (to move)
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Stage 2 of 2
promote
English · 1400s
"to raise someone's rank, or to support a cause or product"
settled as the English word for raising someone's rank, or supporting a cause
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