defalcate
Betekenis (Engels)
- (intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cut off (a part of something).
- (obsolete, transitive) To deduct or take away (a part of income, money, rents, etc.).
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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
[ˈdɛfəɫkeɪt]
Etimologie (Engels)
First attested in the 1530s, in the sense “to lop off”; borrowed from Medieval Latin dēfalcātus, perfect passive participle of dēfalcō (“to cut or lop off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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