altruisme

Catalan

Etymology

From French altruisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əl.tɾuˈiz.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [al.tɾuˈiz.me]

Noun

altruisme m (uncountable)

1. altruism

Related terms

• altruista

Further reading

• “altruisme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

Coined by Auguste Comte in 1830, from autrui +‎ -isme. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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/

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• Rhymes: -ism, -izm
• Homophone: altruismes
• Hyphenation: al‧tru‧isme, al‧truisme

Noun

altruisme m (plural altruismes)

1. altruism

Descendants

• → English: altruism
• → German: Altruismus

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “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