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Where does “sentiment” come from?

Sentiment comes from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum, from Proto-Italic sentimentom.

sentiment (English): A general thought, feeling, or sense; Feelings,...

Definitions

  1. A general thought, feeling, or sense; Feelings,...

Ancestry of “sentiment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsentement—
2Latinsentimentumfeeling, opinion, sentiment
3Latinsentiō—
4Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
5Latin-tōrius—
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōr—
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “sentiment”

  • sentimental
  • sentimentality
  • sentimentalism
  • sentimentalist
  • sentimentally
  • unsentimental
  • senti
  • sentimentalize
  • unsentimentally
  • sentimentalization
  • antisentimental
  • oversentimental
  • sentimentalisation
  • unsentimentality
  • nonsentimental
  • sentimentalizer
  • oversentimentality
  • sentimentalistic
  • ultrasentimental
  • oversentimentally
  • sentimentless
  • sentiments
  • Sentimentalismus
  • usentimental
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