extravagate

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin extrāvagāt- + English -ate (suffix forming verbs). Extrāvagāt- is the participial stem of extrāvagārī, from Latin extrā (“beyond, outside of”, preposition) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)) + vagārī^[1][2] (the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, roam, stroll about, wander”), from vagus (“rambling, roaming, strolling, wandering”) (further etymology uncertain) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs))).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstɹævəɡeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧tra‧vag‧ate

extravagate (third-person singular simple present extravagates, present participle extravagating, simple past and past participle extravagated) (intransitive)

1. To rove.
2. To wander beyond the limits.

• extravagation
• unextravagating