Where does “neoliberalism” come from?
Neoliberalism derives from English liberalism plus the prefix neo-, with liberalism from French libéralisme, combining French libéral and French -isme from Latin -isma, ultimately from Latin liberalis meaning free, derived from Proto-Indo-European lewbʰ-.
neoliberalism (English): A political ideology or ideological trend based...
Definitions
- A political ideology or ideological trend based...
Ancestry of “neoliberalism”, step by step
neoliberalism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English liberalism
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | liberalism | The quality of being liberal; Any political... |
| 2 | French | libéralisme | liberalism |
| 3 | French | libéral | libertarian, liberal; Libertarian, Liberal |
| 4 | Old French | liberal | appropriate for a free person; generous; giving |
| 5 | Latin | līberālis | freedom |
| 6 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 7 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 8 | French | lober | to lob |
| 9 | French | lob | lob |
| 10 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 11 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 12 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 13 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 14 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 15 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 16 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 17 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 18 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 19 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
via French néolibéralisme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | néolibéralisme | neoliberalism |
| 2 | French | néo- | neo- |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | νεο- | new |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | νέος | young; youthful; new, fresh |
| 5 | Latin | fēlēs | cat |
| 6 | Hungarian | fél | to fear, to be afraid of something; to fear... |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | pide | tall |
| 8 | Finnish | pitää | to hold, grasp, grip; to keep, take; to like, be... |
| 9 | Proto-Finnic | pitädäk | to hold, to grasp; to keep |
| 10 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | pitä- | — |