moisturise

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English moisture

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ise

English moisturise

From moisture + -ise.

Verb

moisturise (third-person singular simple present moisturises, present participle moisturising, simple past and past participle moisturised)

1. Non-Oxford British spelling of moisturize.

Derived terms

• moisturisation
• moisturiser

Anagrams

• missourite