English
abrase
Abrase comes from Latin abrāsus ‘scratched, rubbed, scraped off or away, having…’, and goes back to abrādō ‘abrade’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrādō‘abrade’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrāsus‘scratched, rubbed, scraped off or away, having been scratched’perfect passive participle of abrādō
- Englishearliest quotation 1600abrase
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrādō‘abrade’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabrāsus‘scratched, rubbed, scraped off or away, having been scratched’perfect passive participle of abrādō
- Englishearliest quotation 1600abrase
Earliest quotation: 1600, Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]: “An abrase table.”
A compound of ab ‘from, away from’ + rādō ‘scrape’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘from, away from’
Proto-Italic *razdō
Latin rādō ‘scrape’
Every English word from Latin abrādō
Today it means
adj Rubbed smooth or blank.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin abrādō / abrase