Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cut free. · To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. · To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. · To disconnect; to disunite; to terminate.
From Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separāre (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + parāre (“provide, arrange”). Doublet of separate, from the past participle of that Latin verb.
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