Etymology

disafforestation

Today it means: The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws. Full definition →

Latin disafforestātiō
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  1. Latin · derived fromdisafforestō
  2. Latin · borrowed fromdisafforestātiō
  3. English todaydisafforestation

From post-classical Latin disafforestātiō (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, disafforest + -ation.

Words from the same roots

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disafforest

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