The story
- Latin · derived fromdesquamare“to scrape the scales off a fish”
- English todaydesquamation
From Latin desquamare (“to scrape the scales off a fish”), from squāma (“scale”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
desquamation
Today it means: The shedding of the outer layers of the skin. Full definition →
Latin desquamare