Etymology

deletionist

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Today it means: Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious. Full definition →

English deletion ← Latin dēlētiōnem ← Proto-Italic *oleō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂leyH-
  7. Proto-Italic*linō
  8. Latinlinō
  9. Latindēlinō
  10. Latindēlēvībf.?
  11. Latindē-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₃elh₁-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₃olh₁-éye-ti
  14. Proto-Italic*oleō
  15. Latin*oleō
  16. Latindēleō
  17. Latindēlētiōnem
  18. Englishdeletion
  19. English todaydeletionist

From deletion + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.