Etymology

cretify

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Today it means: To become impregnated with salts of lime. Full definition →

Latin creta
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcreta“chalk”
  2. English todaycretify

From Latin creta (“chalk”) + -ify.

Words from the same roots

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