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Subvert

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to undermine the power and authority of an established system or institution
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Stage 1 of 2
subvertere
Latin · ancient
"to overthrow, to turn from beneath"
to turn from beneath, to overthrow, from sub- (from below) and vertere (to turn)
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Stage 2 of 2
subvert
English · 1300s
"to undermine or overthrow an established system"
settled as the English word for undermining or overthrowing something established
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