Translation
ideology
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Word origin
Coined in French as idéologie by Destutt de Tracy in 1796 for a proposed science of ideas, from Greek idea and -logia, the study of. Napoleon used it as an insult for impractical theorists, and the sneering sense is the one that survived into every European language.
- Origin
- French, from Greek
- Root
- idea + -logia
- English cognates
- ideology, idea
Examples
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The two parties do not agree on ideology.
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He wrote a long book about the ideology of his age.
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An ideology can change a whole country in one generation.
is the organised set of ideas a party, a movement or a class holds
about how society should work. It is ideo plus the
international -- element that marks a field of study, and it lands in
Esperanto looking exactly as it does in French, German, Russian and English -
which is the whole point of the international vocabulary layer.
The word has an unusually well documented and unusually sour history. Destutt
de Tracy coined idéologie in 1796 for what he intended as a rigorous science
of where ideas come from. Napoleon then used idéologues as a term of abuse
for intellectuals with theories and no grip on government, and it was the
insult that travelled. Two centuries later the neutral sense survives in
academic writing while the everyday sense still carries Napoleon's edge: an
ideology is usually the rigid system somebody else has.
Register. This is an encyclopedic word and it wants encyclopedic company. It sits naturally beside kapitalismo, teorio and filozofio, and beside the historical vocabulary this chapter also carries. Write about ideologies factually and the word does its job; use it as a verdict and you are doing what Napoleon did.
The adjective is and a person who holds one is an ideologo, which
is where the pattern rhymes with and biologo.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 25, lesson 11: ideologio, vermo, flirti and 7 more words.