Etymology

entrepreneurship

Today it means: The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English entrepreneur
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Englishentrepreneur
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. English todayentrepreneurship

From entrepreneur + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.