Where does “militarist” come from?

Militarist comes from English military combined with Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning one who practices or does.

militarist (English): One who believes in the use of military force

Definitions

  1. One who believes in the use of military force

Ancestry of “militarist”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmilitaryCharacteristic of members of the armed forces;...
2Old Frenchmilitaire
3LatinmīlitārisOf a soldier: soldierly; or of the military: martial
4Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
5Latin-ālis
6Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “militarist

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālisEvery word from Latin -ālisEvery word from Latin -āris