- expropriate (v.)[expropriate 词源字典]
- 1610s, back-formation from expropriation, or from earlier adjective (mid-15c.), or from Medieval Latin expropriatus, past participle of expropriare "to deprive of one's own." Related: Expropriated; expropriating.[expropriate etymology, expropriate origin, 英语词源]