English

greaseboard

From grease + board.

A compound of grease + board

Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’

Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’

Anglo-Norman grece

Middle English grece

Proto-Germanic *burdą ‘board’

Proto-West Germanic *bord ‘board’

Old English bord ‘board’

Middle English boord

English board

Today it means

noun A whiteboard.

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

Etymograph / greaseboard