Etymology

decarbonize

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Today it means: To clean hard sooty deposits from inside an internal combustion engine. Full definition →

English carbonize ← French carbone ← Latin carbōnem
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kerh₃-der.?
  8. Latincarbōnem
  9. Frenchcarbone
  10. Englishcarbon
  11. Englishcarbonize
  12. English todaydecarbonize

From de- + carbonize.

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