disparageyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[disparage 词源字典]
disparage: see pair
[disparage etymology, disparage origin, 英语词源]
disparage (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
early 14c., "degrade socially," from Old French desparagier (Modern French déparager) "reduce in rank, degrade, devalue, depreciate," originally "to marry unequally," and thus by extension the disgrace or dishonor involved in this, from des- "away" (see dis-) + parage "rank, lineage" (see peer (n.)). Sense of "belittle" first recorded 1530s. Related: Disparaged; disparaging; disparagingly.