Disparate
/ˈdɪs.pər.ət/noun
Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
Did you know?Disparate comes from Latin dis- (“apart”) + parare (“to prepare, arrange”), so its oldest sense was about things being set apart or unequal, not just “different.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*per-
“to produce, procure, or bring forth”
Latin
Latin
parāre
“to prepare, make ready, procure”
Late Latin
Latin
disparātus
“separated, unlike, unequal”
Middle French
Old French
disparate
“unequal, different”
16th Century
English
disparate
“markedly different; not comparable”
Modern English
English
disparate
“essentially different in kind”