# relegate
## English
### Etymology 1

First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).

#### Alternative forms

* religate [17th century]

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĕʹlĭgāt, IPA: /ˈɹɛlɪɡeɪt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

#### Verb

relegate (third-person singular simple present relegates, present participle relegating, simple past and past participle relegated)
* Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
** (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
** (reflexive, obsolete, rare) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
** (transitive, historical, Ancient Rome, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
*** 2002, Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers, →ISBN, page 183:Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […] .
** (transitive, figuratively) Remove or send to a place far away.
* (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
** Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
    Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager.
*** 1946 November and December, “A Veteran French Tank Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:Our correspondent adds that, when he visited Rouen in 1910, the engine had been relegated to the shuttle service between Rouen (Rive Droite) and Rouen (Rive Gauche).
*** 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
** Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
** (sports, chiefly soccer) Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division.
    Antonym: promote
    After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.
* (transitive) Refer or submit.
** Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
** Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate.
** (now rare) Submit or refer (someone) to someone or something else for some reason or purpose.

##### Derived terms

* relegated, relegating

##### Related terms

* relegation

##### Translations

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#### References

* “relegate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
* “relegate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, March 2010)

### Etymology 2

First attested circa 1550: from the Classical Latin relēgātus (“banished person, exile”), the nominative singular masculine substantive form of relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).

#### Alternative forms

* relagate [16th century]

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĕʹlĭgət, IPA: /ˈɹɛlɪɡət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

relegate (plural relegates)
* (history, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.

#### References

* “†ˈrelegate, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
* “†relegate, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, December 2009)

### Etymology 3

First attested circa 1425: from the Classical Latin relēgātus, the perfect passive participle of relēgō (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).

#### Alternative forms

* relegat [15th century]
* religait (Scots, [16th century])

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĕʹlĭgət, IPA: /ˈɹɛlɪɡət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Adjective

relegate (not comparable)
* (archaic) Relegated; exiled.

#### References

* “†relegate, adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2010)

### Anagrams

* regelate

## Esperanto
### Adverb

relegate
* present adverbial passive participle of relegi

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /re.leˈɡa.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: re‧le‧gà‧te

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

relegate
* inflection of relegare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

relegate f pl
* feminine plural of relegato

## Latin
### Verb

relēgāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of relēgō

## Spanish
### Verb

relegate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of relegar combined with te