The story
- Latin · derived fromdirigere“direct, steer”
- French · borrowed fromdirigisme
- English todaydirigisme
Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).
Words from the same roots
Latindirigere all →
dirigiste
First known use, by meaning
- from 20th c. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.