Etymology

Rexism

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Today it means: A fascist movement active in Belgium from 1935 to 1945; the ideology of the Rexist Party Full definition →

French rexisme ← Latin rēx ← Proto-Italic *rēks
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃reǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃rḗǵs
  3. Proto-Italic*rēks
  4. Latinrēx
  5. Frenchrexisme
  6. English todayRexism

Semi-learned borrowing from French rexisme. By surface analysis, Latin rēx + English -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.