obscene

Meaning

Adjective

Origin

  • From Middle French obscene (modern French obscène), and from its etymon Latin obscēnus, obscaenus. The further etymology is Unknown, but may be from ob- + caenum (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn-) or scaevus (from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-).

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