English

foreshorten

From fore- + shorten.

A compound of fore- + shorten

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Middle English shortnen

Today it means

verb To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / foreshorten