The story
- French · derived frométatisme
- English todayetatism
From état (“state”) + -ism, equivalent to a borrowing of French étatisme but coined by Ludwig von Mises's 1944 Omnipotent Government to emphasize statism's longer history in France and other Continental governments than in the Anglosphere. Doublet of statism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.