Where does “ineffaceable” come from?
Ineffaceable comes from English efface with the prefix in-, tracing through Latin in- (not) and ex- (out), ultimately from Latin facio (to make) and Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- (to put or place).
ineffaceable (English): Incapable of being effaced
Definitions
- Incapable of being effaced
Ancestry of “ineffaceable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | effaceable | Capable of being effaced |
| 2 | English | efface | To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible |
| 3 | Middle French | effacer | erase |
| 4 | Old French | esfacier | to remove; to delete |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *exfaciāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |