ablate

See also: ablaté

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin abder.

Latin ab-

Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós

Latin latus

Latin ablātusder.

Middle English ablatder.

Late Latin ablātiōder.

Middle English albacioun

English ablationbf.

English ablate

From Middle English ablat (“taken away”), from Latin ablātus, past participle of auferō (“to remove”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). First attested in the 1500s, it became obsolete by the early 1600s.^[1] Returned into use as a back-formation from ablation.

ablate (third-person singular simple present ablates, present participle ablating, simple past and past participle ablated)

(transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. [Late 15^th century.]^[2]
(intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. [Mid 20^th century.]^[2]

^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 3
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ablate”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.

ablate

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