Where does “expansionism” come from?
Expansionism derives from expansion plus the suffix -ism, tracing through Ancient Greek -ισμός and -μός back to Proto-Indo-European -mós, which formed abstract nouns from verbal roots.
expansionism (English): The policy, of a nation, of expanding its...
Definitions
- The policy, of a nation, of expanding its...
Ancestry of “expansionism”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | expansion | The act or process of expanding; The fractional... |
| 2 | French | expansion | expansion |
| 3 | Latin | expansio | expansion |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | — |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | — |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “expansionism”