Where does “anticolonialism” come from?
anticolonialism (English) comes from French anticolonialisme, from French colonial, from French colonie, from Middle French colonie, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō — to turn.
anticolonialism (English): The movement that opposes colonialism
Definitions
- The movement that opposes colonialism
Ancestry of “anticolonialism”, step by step
anticolonialism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French anticolonialisme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | anticolonialisme | anticolonialism |
| 2 | French | colonial | colonial; a colonial, a resident of a colony; a... |
| 3 | French | colonie | colony |
| 4 | Middle French | colonie | colony |
| 5 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 6 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 7 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 8 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via English colonialism
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | colonialism | The policy of a country seeking to extend or... |
| 2 | English | colonial | Of or pertaining to a colony; Of or pertaining to... |
| 3 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 4 | Middle English | -al | — |
| 5 | Old French | -al | suffix used to form adjectives from nouns |
| 6 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |