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Where does “écorchure” come from?

écorchure (French) comes from French écorcher, from Old French escorchier, from Latin excorticāre, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.

écorchure (French): burn; graze

Definitions

  1. burn; graze

Ancestry of “écorchure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchécorcherto skin; to graze
2Old Frenchescorchierto debark; to skin
3Latinexcorticāre—
4LatincortexThe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;...
5Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s—
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