Where does “uneffaceable” come from?
uneffaceable (English) comes from English effaceable, from English efface, from Middle French effacer, from Old French esfacier, from Vulgar Latin *exfaciāre, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
uneffaceable (English): Impossible to efface; permanent
Definitions
- Impossible to efface; permanent
Ancestry of “uneffaceable”, step by step
uneffaceable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English effaceable
| 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 | — |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |