English
scar
Scar comes from Middle English scar.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scar
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604scar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scar
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604scar
Earliest quotation: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice: “Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar…”
The story
Not related to scarify.
Every English word from Middle English scar
Another origin of scar
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)ker-‘to cut’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skarjąreconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350sker‘an isolated rock in the sea’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scarre
- Englishtodayscar
Another origin of scar
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσκάροςskáros‘parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscarus‘a kind of fish’
- Englishtodayscar
Today it means
noun A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English scar / scar