Etymology

desalination

D2E1S1A1L1I1N1A1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water. Full definition →

English salination ← Latin dē- ← Proto-Italic *dē
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Englishsalination
  8. English todaydesalination

From de- + salination.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.