英语词汇denigrate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	denigrate
词源	denigrate [LME] To denigrate someone is to blacken their reputation. The original meaning of the word, in the late Middle Ages, was ‘to make black or dark in colour’; the modern sense developed in the early 16th century. The root of the word is Latin niger ‘black’.
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