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Where does “entrepreneurship” come from?

Entrepreneurship derives from English entrepreneur, from French entrepreneur, ultimately from Latin prehendō meaning to seize or grasp, with the agent noun suffix -or.

entrepreneurship (English): The art or science of innovation and risk-taking...

Definitions

  1. The art or science of innovation and risk-taking...

Ancestry of “entrepreneurship”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-shipAppended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a...
2Middle English-schipeAffixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns...
3Old English-sċiepe—
4Proto-West Germanic-skapiForms nouns denoting state, originally meaning...
5Proto-Germanic-skapizForms nouns denoting state, originally meaning...
6Proto-Germanicskapjanąto make, to create; to shape
7Proto-Indo-Europeanskab-to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,...

Words derived from “entrepreneurship”

  • microentrepreneurship
  • technoentrepreneurship
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