Etymology

universism

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Today it means: a movement advocating personal reason and experience and over faith and dogma Full definition →

English universe ← Middle English universe ← Old French univers
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  3. Proto-Italic*oinos
  4. Old Latinoinos
  5. Latinūnus
  6. Latinversus
  7. Latinūniversus
  8. Old Frenchunivers
  9. Middle Englishuniverse
  10. Englishuniverse
  11. English todayuniversism

From universe + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.