Where does “abrade” come from?

abrade (Italian) comes from Italian abradere, from Latin abrādō, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

abrade (Italian): third-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “abrade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianabradereto rasp, abrade
2Latinabrādōto scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade
3Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
4Latinābfrom, away from, out of
5Proto-Germanic*ab—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →