-изъм
Bulgarian
suffix
Definitions
- Used to form the name of a system, school of thought or theory.
- Used to form nouns indicating a peculiarity or characteristic of language.
- Used to form names of ideologies or behaviors.
- Used to form names of ideologies expressing belief in the superiority of a certain class.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismos, -ism).
Origin
Ancient Greek
-ισμός
Gloss
-ismos, -ism
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -ism English
- -ismus English
- -ismus Latin
- -ismus German
- -izmus Hungarian
- -ismo Italian
- -isme French
- -ismo Spanish, Castilian
- -ισμα Ancient Greek
- -ισμός Ancient Greek
- -ismo Portuguese
- -ism Swedish
- -izam Serbo-Croatian
- -изам Serbo-Croatian
- -ismo Galician
- -ism Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -ισμός Greek (modern)
- -isms Latvian
- -isma Faroese
- ־יזם Yiddish
- -ismus Alemannic German
- -îzm Northern Kurdish
- -im Volapük
- Taranto roa-oit