Etymology

suffragist

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Today it means: A person who promotes suffrage. Full definition →

English suffrage ← Middle English suffrage ← Classical Latin suffrāgium
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-der.?
  6. Latinsuffrāgō
  7. Classical Latinsuffrāgium
  8. Old Frenchsuffrage
  9. Middle Frenchsuffrage
  10. Classical Latinsuffrāgium
  11. Middle Englishsuffrage
  12. Englishsuffrage
  13. English todaysuffragist

From suffrage + -ist (“person, agent”).

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