Etymology

ecoterrorism

E1C3O1T1E1R1R1O1R1I1S1M3

Today it means: Terrorism with an ecological motive, such as attacks against corporations perceived to be harming the natural environment. Full definition →

English terrorism ← French terrorisme ← Middle French terreur
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wóyḱos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*wóikos
  4. Ancient Greekϝοῖκος (woîkos)
  5. Ancient Greekοἶκος (oîkos)
  6. Latinoeco-
  7. Frenchéco-
  8. Englisheco-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*tres-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*troséyeti
  11. Proto-Italic*troseō
  12. Latinterreō
  13. Latinterror
  14. Old Frenchterreur
  15. Middle Frenchterreur
  16. Frenchterreur
  17. Frenchterrorisme
  18. Englishterrorism
  19. English todayecoterrorism

From eco- + terrorism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.