different between arrogate vs adrogate

English

Etymology

From Latin arrog?tus, perfect passive participle of adrog?, arrog? (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rog? (“ask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ???e?t/

Verb

arrogate (third-person singular simple present arrogates, present participle arrogating, simple past and past participle arrogated)

1. (transitive, rare) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

   Synonyms: commandeer, expropriate, usurp

   Antonyms: abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Related terms

• arrogance
• arrogant
• arrogation

Translations

Further reading

• arrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arrogate at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Italian

Verb

arrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of arrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of arrogare
3. feminine plural of arrogato

Latin

Verb

arrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of arrog?

English

Verb

adrogate (third-person singular simple present adrogates, present participle adrogating, simple past and past participle adrogated)

1. (transitive, Ancient Rome, law, historical) To adopt (a person who is his own master).

Anagrams

• Gatorade

Latin

Verb

adrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adrog?