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exempt

/ɪɡˈzempt/ig-ZEMPT
/ɪɡˈzɛmpt/ig-ZEMPT

Meaningtaken out

Common meaning: freed from a duty others have

‘out’ + ‘to take’ → exempt

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√AM‘take’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 15, p. 731 · scan
  2. Latinemō, ēmī, ēmptum‘to take’
  3. Old Frenchexemptsource
  4. Englishexempt‘freed from a duty others have’ · today

ex- also in: exitexactexaltexertexpel

empt also in: promptredeempremiumperemptoryredemption

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin emō ‘to take; to buy’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry emō, p. 643 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

peremptorypremiumpromptredeemredemption

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