Where does “self-effacement” come from?
self-effacement (English) comes from English effacement, from French effacement, from French effacer, from Old French esfacier, from Vulgar Latin *exfaciāre, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
self-effacement (English): The act of keeping oneself in the background, as...
Definitions
- The act of keeping oneself in the background, as...
Ancestry of “self-effacement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | effacement | The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement;... |
| 2 | French | effacement | erasure |
| 3 | French | effacer | to erase; to efface |
| 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 | — |