anomie

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνομία“lawlessness”
2. French · borrowed fromanomie
3. English todayanomie

From French anomie, from Ancient Greek ἀνομία (anomía, “lawlessness”), from ἄνομος (ánomos, “lawless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”). Popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917).