Etymograph

English

desquamation

Desquamation comes from Latin desquamare ‘to scrape the scales off a fish’, and goes back to squāma.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdesquamare‘to scrape the scales off a fish’
  3. Englishtodaydesquamation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdesquamare‘to scrape the scales off a fish’
  3. Englishtodaydesquamation

Linked words

through Latin squāma ‘scale’

squamous, 9 more

Today it means

noun The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.

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