Where does “efface” come from?
Efface comes from Middle French effacer, from Old French esfacier, composed of the Latin prefix ex- and facio meaning "to make" or "to do," ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root dʰeh₁-.
efface (English): To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible
Definitions
- To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible
Ancestry of “efface”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | effacer | erase |
| 2 | Old French | esfacier | to remove; to delete |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *exfaciāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |