English
antichafe
From anti- + chafe.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’
English anti-
Latin calefaciō ‘to warm or heat’
Classical Latin calfaciō
Vulgar Latin *calfō ‘to heat’
Old French chaufer ‘heat’
Middle English chaufen ‘to warm’
English chafe
Today it means
adj Preventing chafing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / antichafe