Etymology

preshrink

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Today it means: To shrink in advance, before sale, in order to ensure better fit. Full definition →

English shrink ← Middle English pre- ← Latin prae-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Englishshrink
  10. English todaypreshrink

From pre- + shrink.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.