Where does “political” come from?
Political comes from English politic, derived from Latin politicus, from Greek πολιτικός, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European tpelH-, with the root sense relating to the city-state or πόλις.
political (English): Concerning or relating to politics, the art and...
Definitions
- Concerning or relating to politics, the art and...
Ancestry of “political”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | politic | Of or relating to polity, or civil government;... |
| 2 | Middle French | politique | — |
| 3 | Latin | polīticus | political, civil, of the state, relating to civil polity |
| 4 | Swedish | politisk | political, having to do with politics |
| 5 | Swedish | politik | politics |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πολιτικός | civic, constitutional, public; social |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
Words derived from “political”
- politically
- geopolitical
- sociopolitical
- apolitical
- nonpolitical
- biopolitical
- unpolitical
- ethnopolitical
- micropolitical
- antipolitical
- politicide
- religiopolitical
- macropolitical
- sociopolitically
- psychopolitical
- postpolitical
- apolitically
- semipolitical
- metapolitical
- ecopolitical
- biopolitically
- impolitical
- nonpolitically
- technopolitical