Where does “экзистенциали́зм” come from?
экзистенциали́зм (Russian) comes from French existentialisme, from French existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex — whale, sea monster; abyss.
экзистенциали́зм (Russian): existentialism
Definitions
- existentialism
Ancestry of “экзистенциали́зм”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | existentialisme | existentialism |
| 2 | French | existence | existence; life |
| 3 | Old French | existence | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | existentia | existence |
| 5 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 6 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 7 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |