Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• enthousiasme

  Dutch · borrowed from

• entuziasmo

  IDO · derived from

• entuziasm

  Romanian · borrowed from

• enthousiasme

  French · inherited from

• entuziasmo

  Esperanto · derived from

• enthusiasm

  English · derived from

• entoesiasme

  Afrikaans · inherited from

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