Etymology

pandeism

pan·de·i·sm
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Today it means: A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it. Full definition →

German Pandeismus ← Ancient Greek παν- ← Latin deus
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The story

  1. German · derived from-ismus“-ism”
  2. Latin · derived fromdeus“deity, god”
  3. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαν-
  4. German · borrowed fromPandeismus
  5. English todaypandeism

Possibly borrowed from German Pandeismus, from pan- (from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all’)) + Deismus (“deism”) (from Latin deus (“deity, god”) + German -ismus (“-ism”)). (Similar words appear earlier in various languages, but apparently not in the same sense.) The word can be analysed as pan- + deism or as a blend of pantheism + deism.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπαν- all →

panmicticpanmixiapanmixisPannotiapantropy

Latindeus all →

jossdeucedeistdeiparous

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