Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. féminismeFrenchborrowed from
2. fēminīnusLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• feminizmus

  Hungarian · derived from

• 페미니즘

  Korean · borrowed from

• feminismo

  Esperanto · derived from

• フェミニズム

  Japanese · 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