petismo

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noun

the philosophy and politics of the Workers’ Party

OriginPortuguese petismo ← Old Galician-Portuguese traballar ← Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre →
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Meanings

nounpetismo (uncountable)
  1. Brazilianuncountablegovernmentthe philosophy and politics of the Workers’ Party

    Even without data, we can, however, discard the third hypothesis, which considers potential connections between cross-cutting social cleavages and petismo.

    2018, David Samuels, Cesar Zucco, Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans: Voting Behavior in Brazil, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 105

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*perh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pérh₃tis?
  3. Proto-Italic*partis
  4. Latinpars
  5. Latinpartīre
  6. Old Galician-Portuguesepartir
  7. Old Galician-Portuguesepartido
  8. Portuguesepartido
  9. Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
  10. Proto-Indo-European*tri-
  11. Proto-Italic*tri-
  12. Latintri-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂ǵ-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂ǵ-slos
  15. Proto-Italic*pākslos
  16. Latinpālus
  17. Latintripālis
  18. Medieval Greekτριπάσσαλον (tripássalon)calq.?
  19. Latintripālium
  20. Vulgar Latin*tripāliāre
  21. Old Galician-Portuguesetraballar
  22. Portuguesetrabalhar
  23. Portuguesetrabalhador
  24. PortuguesePartido dos Trabalhadoresinit.
  25. PortuguesePT
  26. Portuguesepetismo
  27. Englishpetismo

Borrowed from Portuguese petismo.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “petismo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/petismo.

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