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Transfix

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make someone motionless with amazement or fear, or to pierce something through
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Stage 1 of 3
figere
Latin · ancient
"to fix, to fasten"
to fix, to fasten, combined with trans- (through)
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Stage 2 of 3
transfigere
Latin · ancient
"to pierce through"
to pierce through, from trans- and figere
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Stage 3 of 3
transfix
English · 1500s
"to pierce something through, or to make someone motionless with amazement"
settled as the English word for piercing something through, or making someone motionless with amazement
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