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Where does “unerasure” come from?

unerasure (English) comes from English erasure, from English erase, from Latin erasus, from Latin ērādere.

unerasure (English): undeletion

Definitions

  1. undeletion

Ancestry of “unerasure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisherasureThe action of erasing; deletion; obliteration;...
2Englisheraseto remove markings or information; To obliterate...
3Latinerasusscratched out, scraped off, erased; abolished,...
4Latinērādere—
Every word from Latin ērādere →