- segregate (v.)
- 1540s, from Latin segregatus, past participle of segregare "separate from the flock, isolate, divide," from *se gregare, from se "apart from" (see secret) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock" (see gregarious). Originally often with reference to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners. Related: Segregated; segregating.