Etymology

dirigiste

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Today it means: Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy. Full definition →

French dirigiste ← Latin dirigere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromdirigere“to direct, to steer”
  2. French · borrowed fromdirigiste
  3. English todaydirigiste

Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).

Words from the same roots

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