Etymology

sexism

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Today it means: The belief that people of one sex (or gender) are inherently different from those of another sex, and generally that one sex is superior to others. Full definition →

English sex ← Middle English sexe ← Old French sexe
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*séks-u-s
  3. Proto-Italic*seksus
  4. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sékh₁yeti
  6. Proto-Italic*sekaō
  7. Latinsecō
  8. Latinsecāre?
  9. Latinsexus
  10. Old Frenchsexe
  11. Middle Englishsexe
  12. Englishsex
  13. English todaysexism

From sex + -ism.

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