Where does “existentialism” come from?

Existentialism derives from English existential, from Ancient Greek -ισμός, from Latin existentia, from Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ία, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

existentialism (English): A twentieth-century philosophical movement...

Definitions

  1. A twentieth-century philosophical movement...

Ancestry of “existentialism”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ismUsed to form nouns of action or process or result...
2Latin-ismus-ism
3Ancient Greek-ισμόςForms abstract nouns
4Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós →