Where does “υπαρξισμός” come from?
υπαρξισμός (Greek) comes from German Existentialismus, from French existentialisme, from French existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
υπαρξισμός (Greek): existentialism
Definitions
- existentialism
Ancestry of “υπαρξισμός”, step by step
υπαρξισμός traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Existentialismus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Existentialismus | existentialism |
| 2 | French | existentialisme | existentialism |
| 3 | French | existence | existence; life |
| 4 | Old French | existence | — |
| 5 | Late Latin | existentia | existence |
| 6 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 7 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 8 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 9 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via Greek ύπαρξη
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek | ύπαρξη | existence; a creature, a human being; mainly a... |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ὕπαρξις | existence, reality; substance |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ὑπάρχω | to begin, make a beginning, take initiative, be... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ῠ̔πο- | under, lower; by, under; under”, “beneath |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ὑπό | |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |