Where does “dreampolitik” come from?
dreampolitik (English) comes from English Realpolitik, from German Realpolitik, from German Real, from Latin reālis, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio, from Latin vindicō, from Latin vindex — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
dreampolitik (English): Policy focused on emotion, fantasy and spectacle rather than pragmatism
Definitions
- Policy focused on emotion, fantasy and spectacle rather than pragmatism
Ancestry of “dreampolitik”, step by step
dreampolitik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Realpolitik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Realpolitik | Alternative letter-case form of realpolitik |
| 2 | German | Realpolitik | realpolitik pragmatic international government policy |
| 3 | German | Real | real former Spanish currency unit |
| 4 | Latin | reālis | real |
| 5 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 6 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 7 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 8 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 9 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 10 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 11 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 12 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 13 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 16 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English dream
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | dream | Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping;... |
| 2 | Middle English | drem | music; voice, conversing; joy, mirthfulness |
| 3 | Old Frisian | drēma | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *draumijan | to dream |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | draumijaną | to dream |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | draumaz | dream |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | draugmaz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰrowgʰ-mos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰrewgʰ- | to deceive, to mislead; to serve one's tribe;... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰer- | to support; to hold |