Etymology

entryism

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Today it means: A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate. Full definition →

English entryinflu. ← French entrisme ← Middle French entrer
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁énteros
  3. Latin*interus
  4. Latinintrā
  5. Latinintrō
  6. Old Frenchentrer
  7. Middle Frenchentrer
  8. Frenchentrer
  9. Frenchentrisme
  10. Englishentrism
  11. Englishentryinflu.
  12. English todayentryism

Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.

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