forbode

Meanings

Noun

• A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.

Verb

• Alternative of forebode

Origin

• From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod ("a forbidding, prohibition"), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą ("prohibition"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ("to be awake, fully perceive"), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.
• From Middle English, from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan. More at forbid.