Where does “effacement” come from?
Effacement derives from French effacement, formed with the Old French suffix -ment (from Latin -mentum, from mens meaning "mind") attached to a verb root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European men-.
effacement (English): The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement;...
Definitions
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement;...
Ancestry of “effacement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | effacement | erasure |
| 2 | French | effacer | to erase; to efface |
| 3 | Old French | esfacier | to remove; to delete |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *exfaciāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |