Etymograph

English

pulverisation

Pulverisation comes from French pulvérisation ‘pulverization’, and goes back to Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvisas pulvis‘dust, powder’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEpulverizāre
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentpulvériser‘to pulverise’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentpulvérisation‘pulverization’
  5. Englishtodaypulverisation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvisas pulvis‘dust, powder’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEpulverizāre
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentpulvériser‘to pulverise’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentpulvérisation‘pulverization’
  5. Englishtodaypulverisation

Equivalent to pulverise + -ation

Latin pulvis ‘powder’

Latin pulverizō

Middle English pulverizen

English pulverise

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’

film, felt, simple, simply, push, complain, filter, fold, repeal, pulse, flaw, pollen, expel, palate, repel, palpable, palladium, propel, compulsive, palatable, pall, pelt, wallow, polemic, peloton, tuple, pollinate, muffle, palatal, apoplexy, peplum, palp, pillion, interpolate, 63 more

through Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder’

powder, pillow, 10 more

Today it means

noun —

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

Etymograph / Latin pulvis / pulverisation

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