English
elimination
Elimination comes from Latin ēliminō ‘to carry out of doors’, and goes back to līmen.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmen‘threshold, doorstep, sill’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēliminō‘to carry out of doors’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēliminātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1977elimination
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmen‘threshold, doorstep, sill’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēliminō‘to carry out of doors’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēliminātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1977elimination
Earliest quotation: 1977, Computerworld: “The real savings of OCR come from the elimination…”
Formed from eliminate + -ion
Latin līmen ‘a threshold’
Latin ēlīminō ‘to turn out of doors, banish’
Latin ēlīminātus
English eliminate
Linked words
through Latin līmen ‘threshold, doorstep, sill’
preliminary, sublime, subliminal, sublimation, sublimate, liminal, 5 more
Today it means
noun The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin līmen / elimination