Etymology

exhaustion

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Today it means: The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up. Full definition →

Medieval Latin exhaustiō ← Latin exhauriō ← Proto-Italic *auziō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinex-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
  8. Proto-Italic*auziō
  9. Latinhauriō
  10. Latinexhauriō
  11. Medieval Latinexhaustiō
  12. English todayexhaustion

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.

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