altruisme
Catalan
Related terms
Further reading
- “altruisme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Coined 1830 by Auguste Comte, autrui + -isme. From Old French, from Latin alteri, dative of alter (“other”). Apparently inspired by French Latin legal phrase l'autrui, from le bien, le droit d'autrui (“the good, the right of the other”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.tʁɥizm/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ism, -izm
- Homophone: altruismes
- Hyphenation: al‧tru‧isme, al‧truisme
Descendants
- → English: altruism
- → German: Altruismus
References
- “altruisme” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Further reading
- “altruisme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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