Etymology

Protestantism

P3R1O1T1E1S1T1A1N1T1I1S1M3

Today it means: The Protestant (rather than the Roman Catholic or Orthodox) Christian faith. Full definition →

English Protestant ← French protestant ← German Protestantinflu.
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  5. Proto-Italic*pro-
  6. Latinprō-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*tri-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*trito-sth₂-o-s
  10. Proto-Italic*tristos
  11. Latin*terstis
  12. Latintestis
  13. Latintestor
  14. Latinprōtestārī
  15. Frenchprotester
  16. Germanprotestieren
  17. GermanProtestant
  18. Frenchprotester
  19. GermanProtestantinflu.
  20. Frenchprotestant
  21. EnglishProtestant
  22. English todayProtestantism

From Protestant + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.