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ESCAPE = c.1300, from Old North French escaper, Old French eschaper (12c.,Modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappare, literally "get outof one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape,"
EMBRACE = -14c., from Old French embracer (12c., Modern French embrasser) "clasp in the arms, enclose; covet, handle, cope with," from en- "in" (seen (1)) + brace, braz "the arms," from Latin bracchium (neuter pluralbrachia); see brace (n.).
RELATE = "to recount, tell," from Middle French relater "refer, report" (14c.)and directly from Latin relatus, used as past participle of referre "bringback, bear back" (see REFER), from re- "back, again" + latus (see oblate(n.)).