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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

  1. Impossible to efface; permanent

Ancestry of “uneffaceable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisheffaceableCapable of being effaced
2EnglisheffaceTo erase ; to render illegible or indiscernible;...
3Middle Frencheffacererase
4Old Frenchesfacierto remove; to delete
5Vulgar Latin*exfaciāre—
6Latinfaciēs—
7Latinfaciō—
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōrius—
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōr—
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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