Where does “efface” come from?
efface (French) comes from French effacer, from Old French esfacier, from Vulgar Latin *exfaciāre, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
efface (French): eraser; first-person singular present indicative...
Definitions
- eraser; first-person singular present indicative...
Ancestry of “efface”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | effacer | to erase; to efface |
| 2 | Old French | esfacier | to remove; to delete |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *exfaciāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |