Etymology

nazism

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Today it means: The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism. Full definition →

English Nazi ← German Nazi ← French socia
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁tis
  3. Proto-Italic*gnātiō
  4. Latinnātiō
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. New Latinnātionālis
  8. Germannational
  9. Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷéh₂
  11. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷh₂ṓy
  12. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷyós
  13. Proto-Italic*sokjos
  14. Latinsokios
  15. Latinsocius
  16. Latinsociālis
  17. Frenchsocia
  18. Germansozial
  19. GermanSozialist
  20. GermanNationalsozialist
  21. GermanSoziinflu.
  22. GermanNazi
  23. EnglishNazi
  24. English todayNazism

From Nazi + -ism.

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