proscribe

• 公権力を......剥奪する；......禁止する

pro-、前に、前もって、-script、書く、語源的にはdescribe、prescribeと同じ。すなわち、前に書かれた言葉、前で話されたスキャンダラスな言葉、派生的にはprohibit、forbid。

proscribe (v.)

early 15c., "write before, prefix," from Latin proscribere "publish in writing" (literally "write in front of"), including senses of "publish as having forfeited one's property, condemn, outlaw before the world," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Meaning "prohibit as wrong or dangerous" first recorded 1620s.