English
greasepaint
From grease + paint.
Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’
Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’
Anglo-Norman grece
Middle English grece
English grease
Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- ‘to hew’
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Old French peindre ‘to paint’
Old French peint ‘painted’
Old French peintier ‘to paint’
Middle English peynten ‘to decorate or adorn with drawing or painting’
English paint
Today it means
noun A mixture of grease and coloring matter used as theatrical makeup.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / greasepaint