Where does “preexistentism” come from?
preexistentism (English) comes from English preexistent, from English existent, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
preexistentism (English): The theory that souls exist prior to their...
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- The theory that souls exist prior to their...
Ancestry of “preexistentism”, step by step
preexistentism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English preexistent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | preexistent | Existing previously; Preceding existence |
| 2 | English | existent | existing; having life or being, current;... |
| 3 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 4 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 5 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English ism
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ism | An ideology, system of thought, or practice that... |
| 2 | English | -ism | Used to form nouns of action or process or result... |
| 3 | Latin | -ismus | -ism |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ισμός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -μός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -mós | Creates action/result nouns from verb stems |