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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- protocol (n.)
- 1540s, as prothogall "draft of a document," from M.Fr.
prothocole (c.1200), from M.L. protocollum "draft," lit.
"the first sheet of a volume" (on which contents and
errata were written), from Gk. protokollon "first sheet glued
onto a manuscript," from protos "first" (see proto-)
+ kolla "glue." Sense developed in Medieval Latin and
French from "official account" to "official record of
a transaction," "diplomatic document," and finally,
in French, to "formula of diplomatic etiquette." Meaning
"diplomatic rules of etiquette" first recorded 1896, from
French; general sense of "conventional proper conduct" is
from 1952. "Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion,"
Russian anti-Semitic forgery purporting to reveal Jewish plan for
world domination, first published in English 1920 under title "The
Jewish Peril.
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