Etymology

stateling

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Today it means: A statelet; a very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state. Full definition →

First used 19thEnglish state ← Middle English stat ← Old French estat
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
  3. Proto-Italic*status
  4. Latinstatu
  5. Old Frenchestat
  6. Middle Englishstat
  7. Englishstate
  8. English todaystateling

From state + -ling.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th A statelet; a very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.