Etymology

rite de passage

rite de pass·age

Today it means: Synonym of rite of passage. Full definition →

First used early 20th c.French rite de passage
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  1. French · borrowed fromrite de passage
  2. English todayrite de passage

Borrowed from French rite de passage, and attested later than rite of passage. The French term was coined by French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) and popularized in his work Les rites de passage (1909).

Words from the same roots

Frenchrite de passage all →

rite of passage

First known use, by meaning

  • from early 20th c. Synonym of rite of passage.

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