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• decrease — [14] Etymologically, decrease means ‘ungrow’. It comes from de(s)creiss , the present stem of Old French de(s)creistre, which was a descendant of Vulgar Latin discrēscēre. This was an alteration of Latin dēcrēscēre, a compound verb formed from… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• decrease — [14] Etymologically, decrease means ‘ungrow’. It comes from de(s)creiss , the present stem of Old French de(s)creistre, which was a descendant of Vulgar Latin discrēscēre. This was an alteration of Latin dēcrēscēre, a compound verb formed from… …   Word origins