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Where does “effaceth” come from?

effaceth (English) comes from English efface, from Middle French effacer, from Old French esfacier, from Vulgar Latin *exfaciāre, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.

effaceth (English): Third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “effaceth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisheffaceTo erase ; to render illegible or indiscernible;...
2Middle Frencheffacererase
3Old Frenchesfacierto remove; to delete
4Vulgar Latin*exfaciāre—
5Latinfaciēs—
6Latinfaciō—
7Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
8Latin-tōrius—
9Latin-tor-er
10Proto-Italic-tōr—
11Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
12Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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