Word Origin Summary

-isma is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• veganisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ism

  Romanian · derived from

• -ismo

  Interlingua · borrowed from

• -ïsme

  French · borrowed from

• absurdisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• Donaldisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ism

  Swedish · borrowed from

• ـیسم

  FAS · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root