English
effacement
Effacement comes from French effacement ‘erasure’, from effacer ‘to erase’, and ultimately from Old French esfacier ‘to remove’.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400esfacier‘to remove’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenteffacer‘to erase’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenteffacement‘erasure’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927effacement
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400esfacier‘to remove’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenteffacer‘to erase’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenteffacement‘erasure’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927effacement
Earliest quotation: 1927, Ernest Bramah pseudonym; Ernest Brammah : “Among the many very baffling inconsistencies of Shakespeare's life…”.
Every English word from Old French esfacier
Today it means
noun The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French esfacier / effacement