Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. -ismaLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• veganisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ism

  Romanian · derived from

• -ismo

  Interlingua · borrowed from

• absurdisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• Donaldisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -ism

  Swedish · borrowed from

• ـیسم

  FAS · borrowed from

• -ismi

  Finnish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root