Etymograph

English

abrasable

Abrasable comes from Latin abrādō ‘to scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *razdō.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘scrape, scratch, shave’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrādō‘to scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrāsibilis
  5. Englishtodayabrasable

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘scrape, scratch, shave’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrādō‘to scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrāsibilis
  5. Englishtodayabrasable

Linked words

through Latin rādō ‘scrape, scratch, shave’

erase, erasure, raze, raster, 12 more

Today it means

adj abradable

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *razdō / abrasable

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