Other forms: interdicted, interdicting, interdicts
An interdict is an official order forbidding something. Place under interdict, lift the interdict, a papal interdict.
In church history it was the heaviest collective penalty short of excommunication: a whole territory could be placed under one, and the sacraments stopped for everybody in it. In military use, to interdict is to cut a supply route. The Latin means to forbid.
1nouninterdictAn official order forbidding something.
“The court issued an interdict preventing the newspaper from printing the story.”
2verbcutTo cut off a route or supply.
“Navy patrols interdicted the smugglers' boats before they could reach the coast.”
interdict is a prohibition.
Latin interdicere means to forbid — inter, between, plus dicere, to say.
Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ-
Latin
interdīcō — prohibit, forbid
Old French
entredire — forbid
Middle English
entrediten
English, today
interdict
Built from
From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European deyḱ-.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA