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Segregate

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to separate a person or group from the rest, often based on race or class
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Stage 1 of 3
grex
Latin · ancient
"flock, herd"
flock, herd, combined with se- (apart)
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Stage 2 of 3
segregare
Latin · ancient
"to separate from the flock"
to separate from the flock, from se- and grex
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Stage 3 of 3
segregate
English · 1500s
"to set apart from the rest of a group"
settled as the English word for setting apart from the rest of a group
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