English
deletionist
Deletionist comes from Latin dēleō ‘to delete’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēleō‘to delete’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēlētiōnem
- English1500–presentdeletion
- Englishearliest quotation 2009deletionist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēleō‘to delete’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēlētiōnem
- English1500–presentdeletion
- Englishearliest quotation 2009deletionist
Earliest quotation: 2009, Emmanuel Gobillot, Kogan Page: “In the deletionists’ corner sits the strong sense that…”
A compound of deletion + -ist
Latin dēleō ‘to destroy, raze, annihilate’
Latin dēlētiōnem ‘destruction, effacement’
English deletion
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- ‘to smear’
through Latin dēleō ‘to delete’
Today it means
adj Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin dēleō / deletionist