Where does “abrase” come from?
abrase (Italian) comes from Italian abradere, from Latin abrādō, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
abrase (Italian): third-person singular past historic of abradere;...
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of abradere;...
Ancestry of “abrase”, step by step
abrase traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian abradere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | abradere | to rasp, abrade |
| 2 | Latin | abrādō | to scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade |
| 3 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 4 | Latin | āb | from, away from, out of |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |
via Italian abraso
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | abraso | past participle of abradere |