The story
- Latin · derived fromego“I”
- English todayegotism
From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
egotism
Today it means: A tendency to talk excessively about oneself. Full definition →
Latin ego