[1525–35; ‹ L dēhortārī to dissuade, equiv. to dē- de- + hortārī to urge (hor(īrī) to urge + -t- freq. suffix + -ārī inf. suffix)]This word is first recorded in the period 1525–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dominant, evangelical, shuffle, society, spoilerde- 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)