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gangrene

GANG-green · noun

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Origin

English borrowed "gangrene" from French "gangrène", which came from Latin "gangraena", itself from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina), meaning "gangrene".

Journey

The facts don't show a shift in meaning — the word appears to have carried the same sense of dying, decaying flesh from Greek through Latin and French into English.

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The facts given don't point to any English cognate beyond the word itself passed down through this chain.

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