English
surface
Surface comes from Middle French surface.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600surface
- Englishearliest quotation 1782surface
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600surface
- Englishearliest quotation 1782surface
Earliest quotation: 1782, Vicesimus Knox, On knowing the world at an early age: “Such characters as have nothing but external accompliſhments to…”
Every English word from Middle French surface
Today it means
noun The external boundary of an object or body.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French surface / surface