déroger

From Latin dērogāre.

• IPA^(key): /de.ʁɔ.ʒe/

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déroger

1. to repeal (a law)
2. to break, contravene, infringe (a law), to break away (from a tradition)

   Ceux qui y dérogent risquent jusqu’à la peine de mort.

   Those who violate it can risk as much as the death penalty.

   Il a dérogé à son habitude de se retirer à huit heures

   He broke his habit of retiring at eight o'clock.

   • 2020, Mathieu Feryn, Where is the jazz ? Une approche communicationnelle des mondes du jazz - (2000-2020), →ISBN, page 17:

     Elle déroge à la plus élémentaire discipline académique. Mais, ce mouvement d’introspection est pour moi necessaire.

     It contravenes the most basic academic discipline. But this movement of introspection is necessary for me.

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written déroge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• dérogation
• dérogatoire

• “déroger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.