English

airbrasion

Blend of air + abrasion.

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ ‘mist, air’

Latin āēr

Old French air

Middle English aire

English air

Proto-Italic *razdō

Latin rādō ‘scrape, scratch, shave’

Latin abrādō ‘scrape off’

Medieval Latin abrasio ‘a scraping’

French abrasion

Today it means

noun The delivery of a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.

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

Etymograph / airbrasion