Where does “communitarianism” come from?
Communitarianism comes from Ancient Greek -ισμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós, a suffix forming abstract nouns denoting states or conditions.
communitarianism (English): The group of doctrines that oppose excessive...
Definitions
- The group of doctrines that oppose excessive...
Ancestry of “communitarianism”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | communitarian | Considering the community to be of central... |
| 2 | English | community | A group sharing a common understanding, and often... |
| 3 | Middle English | communite | — |
| 4 | Old French | communité | — |
| 5 | Latin | commūnitās | a community |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |