Renegade comes to English from the Spanish word ''renegado'', which itself was a derived from the medeival Latin renegatus, the root of which also gave us the term renege. In spanish the term originally denoted a person who renounced Christianity and converted to Islam. Currently the term also refers to someone who abandons one cause for another; a traitor. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/renegade]
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Renegade comes to English from the Spanish word ''renegado'', which itself was derived from the medeival Latin "renegatus", the root of which also gave us the term renege. In spanish the term originally denoted a person who renounced Christianity and converted to Islam. Currently the term also refers to someone who abandons one cause for another; a traitor. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/renegade]
== Other Usage ==
== Other Usage ==
President-elect Barack Obama's Secret Service codename, which he helped select, is "Renegade."
President-elect Barack Obama's Secret Service codename, which he helped select, is "Renegade."