Sep. 13th, 2016

evulsion

Sep. 13th, 2016 07:51 am
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evulsion (ih-VUHL-shuhn) - n., the act of plucking or pulling out, forcible extraction.


Which gave me pause, as e- is not a common Latin prefix in English: it's an alternate form of ex- in front of certain consonants, as in emit. So by the roots (Latin ēvellere) it's a pulling out of. Rarely used since being introduced in 1611.

---L.

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