The story
- Latin · derived fromproletarius“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”
- English todayproletarian
From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
Words from the same roots
Latinproletarius all →
proletaireproletary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.