Etymograph

English

antiabrasion

From anti- + abrasion.

Formed from anti- + abrasion

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Proto-Italic *razdō

Latin rādō ‘scrape, scratch, shave’

Latin abrādō ‘scrape off’

Medieval Latin abrasio ‘a scraping’

French abrasion

English abrasion

Today it means

adj Preventing abrasion.

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

Etymograph / antiabrasion