divulge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make known or reveal a secret or private information

   He refused to divulge the name of his confidential source.

Simplified etymology

Divulge entered English in the later Middle Ages from Latin divulgare, “to spread among the people,” and thus “to make generally known.” Its root is Latin vulgus, “the common people,” which is also the source of vulgar.

From Latin divulgare ('to publish, make common'), from dis- ('apart, widely') + vulgare ('to make common'), from vulgus ('the common people').

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