Translation
terrorist
Word origin
From teroro, terror, plus the suffix -ist- for a person who practises something. Teroro is Latin terror, from terrere, to frighten, and the political sense dates from the French Revolution, when la Terreur named a specific period of state killing.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- terror
- English cognates
- terror, terrify, deter
Examples
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The word terrorist was born during the great revolution.
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The newspapers of that time wrote about the terrorists of the state.
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To some he was a terrorist, to others a hero.
The machinery is regular. Teroro is terror. Terorismo is the doctrine or practice, using the -ism- suffix that names systems of thought. is the person, using --, the same suffix that turns into o and into o. Terorisma is the adjective for the practice and terorista for the person. Nothing here is irregular, so the whole family follows from the one root.
The word has a history, and it is worth knowing. It began as a description of a government, not of its opponents: during the French Revolution, terroriste meant an agent of the Terror of 1793 and 1794. The sense inverted over the nineteenth century until it named non-state violence instead, which is roughly how the word is used today. That is one reason it is a contested label rather than a neutral one, and dictionaries in every language note as much.
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