altruisme
Catalan
Etymology
From French altruisme.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əl.tɾuˈiz.mə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /al.tɾuˈiz.me/
Noun
altruisme m (uncountable)
- altruism
Related terms
- altruista
Further reading
- “altruisme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Coined by Auguste Comte in 1830, from 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.tʁɥism/, /al.tʁɥizm/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ism, -izm
- Homophone: altruismes
- Hyphenation: al‧tru‧isme, al‧truisme
Noun
altruisme m (plural altruismes)
- altruism
Related terms
- altruiste
Descendants
- → English: altruism
- → German: Altruismus
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “altruisme”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
- “altruisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- mutileras, stimulera, trémulais
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, affixed altruis + -isme, borrowed from Dutch altruïsme, from French altruisme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [altruˈɪsmə]
- Hyphenation: al‧tru‧is‧mê
Noun
altruismê (first-person possessive altruismeku, second-person possessive altruismemu, third-person possessive altruismenya)
- altruism
Related terms
- altruis
- altruistis
Further reading
- “altruisme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.