Etymology

Islamoterrorism

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Today it means: Terrorism inspired by radical Islam. Full definition →

English terrorism ← French terrorisme ← Middle French terreur
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The story

  1. Arabicأَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)
  2. Arabicإِسْلَام (ʔislām)
  3. EnglishIslam
  4. EnglishIslamo-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*tres-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*troséyeti
  7. Proto-Italic*troseō
  8. Latinterreō
  9. Latinterror
  10. Old Frenchterreur
  11. Middle Frenchterreur
  12. Frenchterreur
  13. Frenchterrorisme
  14. Englishterrorism
  15. English todayIslamoterrorism

From Islamo- + terrorism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.