relegate

Meanings

Verb

• Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
• Consign or assign.
• Refer or submit.

Noun

• A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.

Adjective

• Relegated; exiled.

Origin

• First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō.
• First attested circa 1550: from the Classical Latin relēgātus, the nominative singular masculine substantive form of relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō.
• First attested circa 1425: from the Classical Latin relēgātus, the perfect passive participle of relēgō (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).