Where does “exemptionalism” come from?
exemptionalism (English) comes from English exemptional, from English exemption, from Old French exemption, from Latin exemptio, from Latin eximo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — whale, sea monster; abyss.
exemptionalism (English): The belief that the relationship between humans...
Definitions
- The belief that the relationship between humans...
Ancestry of “exemptionalism”, step by step
exemptionalism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English exemptional
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | exemptional | Of or relating to exemption |
| 2 | English | exemption | An act of exempting; The state of being exempt;... |
| 3 | Old French | exemption | — |
| 4 | Latin | exemptio | — |
| 5 | Latin | eximo | I remove or extract; I banish |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English ism
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ism | An ideology, system of thought, or practice that... |
| 2 | English | -ism | Used to form nouns of action or process or result... |
| 3 | Latin | -ismus | -ism |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ισμός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -μός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -mós | Creates action/result nouns from verb stems |