English
fossilize
From fossil + -ize.
A compound of fossil + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- ‘to dig, burrow’
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Proto-Italic *foðjō ‘to pierce’
Latin fodio ‘to dig up’
Latin fossilis ‘something which has been dug up’
French fossile
English fossil
Today it means
verb To make into a fossil.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fossilize