Where does “abrasion” come from?

Abrasion comes from French abrasion, from Medieval Latin abrasio, from Latin abrado meaning to scrape away, combining ab and a root from Proto-Indo-European reh₁d-.

abrasion (English): The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the...

Definitions

  1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the...

Ancestry of “abrasion”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchabrasionabrasion
2Medieval Latinabrasioa scraping; The act of scratching, scraping or...
3Latinabrādōto scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade
4Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
5Latinābfrom, away from, out of
6Proto-Germanic*ab—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—

Words derived from “abrasion”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →