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No. English humiliate passes through Late Latin humiliatus and humiliare, then Latin humilis. Humilis is formed from Latin humus; the modern English soil word is a separate later borrowing.
/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ · verb
To reduce someone in their own or others’ estimation, causing shame or loss of dignity; from Late Latin forms meaning to make low or humble.
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Publishes the mediated Latin route.
Word Origin: humus to humilis to humiliare to humiliatePlaces both words in the same deep branch without making the English words parent and child.
dhghem- item 4: humiliate and humus from Latin humusShows that ground, lowness, and status senses belong to the Latin adjective.
Humilis literal and figurative sensesThe graph reuses the Latin humus node but draws no edge from English humus to English humiliate.