Where does “majority” come from?
Majority comes from Middle French maiorité, from Latin maioritatem (accusative of maioritas), derived from maior meaning "greater," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂- meaning "great."
majority (English): More than half of some group; The difference...
Definitions
- More than half of some group; The difference...
Ancestry of “majority”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | maiorité | majority |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | maioritatem | accusative singular of māiōritās |
| 3 | Latin | maioritas | majority; superiority |
| 4 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
Words derived from “majority”
- majoritarian
- supermajority
- majoritarianism
- nonmajoritarian
- antimajoritarian
- antimajoritarianism
- majoritive
- antimajority
- hypermajority
- majorityhood
- countermajoritarian
- majoritarily
- majoritize
- majoritary
- majority-minority
- nonmajority
- promajority
- submajority
- supramajority
- majoriti
- マジョリティー
- majoritively
- countermajoritarianism
- supermajoritarian