Etymology

infrarealism

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Today it means: A literary movement of the 1970s, founded in Mexico by poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. Full definition →

English realism ← Middle English real ← Old French ree
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  7. Proto-Italic*ferō
  8. Latinferō
  9. Latinīnferō
  10. Latinīnfrā
  11. Englishinfra-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
  14. Proto-Italic*reis
  15. Classical Latinrēs
  16. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  18. Late Latinreālis
  19. Old Frenchree
  20. Middle Englishreal
  21. Englishreal
  22. Englishrealism
  23. English todayinfrarealism

From infra- + realism.

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