[1615–25; ‹ L dēgustāre to taste, try, equiv. to dē- de- + gustāre to taste (gust(us) a tasting + -āre inf. suffix)]This word is first recorded in the period 1615–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: berth, deposit, evolution, foliation, scintillationde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)