Where does “voluntarist” come from?

Voluntarist derives from English voluntary, from Latin voluntarius meaning willing, from Latin velle to wish, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʷelH-.

voluntarist (English): Someone who endorses voluntarism

Definitions

Someone who endorses voluntarism

Ancestry of “voluntarist”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	voluntary	Done, given, or acting of one's own free will;...
2	Middle English	voluntarie	—
3	Old French	volontaire	—
4	Latin	voluntārius	—
5	Latin	voluntās	—
6	Latin	velle	present active infinitive of volō; wish, intend;...
7	Proto-Italic	welō	to want, will
8	Proto-Indo-European	welh₁-	to choose; to want

Words derived from “voluntarist”

voluntaristic

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