Etymology

afforestation

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Today it means: The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested. Full definition →

Medieval Latin afforestātiō ← Latin ad- ← Late Latin forestis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived from-iō
  2. Late Latin · derived fromforestis“forest”
  3. Latin · derived fromad-
  4. Medieval Latin · borrowed fromafforestātiō
  5. English todayafforestation

From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.

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