forbode

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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

Verb

obsolete simple past of forbid.

Verb

Alternative form of forebode

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Etimologia (Inglês)

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.