Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Abominate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
Abominable; detested.
The word "abominate" likely originated in the mid-17th century either as a back-formation from "abomination" or directly from Late Latin. Its roots trace back to the Latin phrase meaning "to deprecate as an ill omen," combining elements that mean "away from" and "to forebode."