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It comes from "chaste" (Latin castus) through an intermediate form meaning pure/non-mixed
by ithkuil 9y ago
It comes from "chaste" (Latin castus) through an intermediate form meaning pure/non-mixed
- posterboy 9y agoThe intermediate form "castus" does go back to the same root as "castrate", according to wiktionary! Although the entries for the french and english homophones differ.