Etymology

desinicization

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Today it means: The removal; elimination or suppression of Chinese influence and culture or process of stripping down one's Chineseness. Full definition →

English sinicization ← Medieval Latin Sinicus ← Latin Sīna
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Ancient GreekΣῖναι (Sînai)
  8. LatinSīna
  9. Medieval LatinSinicus
  10. EnglishSinic
  11. Englishsinicize
  12. Englishsinicization
  13. English todaydesinicization

From de- + sinicization.

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