-ismo

• IPA^(key): /ˈismo/

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• Rhymes: -ismo
• Hyphenation: is‧mo

-ismo

1. -ism

• ismo

From Latin -ismus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈismo/ [ˈiz̺.mʊ]
• Rhymes: -ismo

-ismo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ismos)

1. -ism

Borrowed from English -ism, French -isme, Italian -ismo, Portuguese -ismo/Spanish -ismo, Russian -изм (-izm), all ultimately from Latin -ismus, from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈismo/

1=n

-ismo

1. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a state or practice of being; -ism

   ‎despota (“despot”) + ‎-ismo → ‎despotismo (“despotism”)

   ‎gigante (“giant”) + ‎-ismo → ‎gigantismo (“gigantism”)

   ‎magnete (“magnet”) + ‎-ismo → ‎magnetismo (“magnetism”)

2. (medicine) forms nouns from nouns, denoting a condition or syndrome; -ism

   ‎plumbo (“iron”) + ‎-ismo → ‎plumbismo (“plumbism, lead poisoning”)

   ‎caffeina (“caffeine”) + ‎-ismo → ‎caffeinismo (“caffeinism”)

   ‎alcohol (“alcohol”) + ‎-ismo → ‎alcoholismo (“alcoholism”)

3. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a doctrine or practice of concerned with the root; -ism

   ‎Calvin (“Calvin”) + ‎-ismo → ‎calvinismo (“Calvinism”)

   ‎social (“social”) + ‎-ismo → ‎socialismo (“socialism”)

4. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a characteristic or language; -ism

   ‎hellen (“Hellene”) + ‎-ismo → ‎hellenisme (“Hellenism”)

   ‎gallic (“Gallic”) + ‎-ismo → ‎gallicisme (“gallicism”)

• This suffix is often parallel to human nouns in -ista, adjectives in -ista and verbs in -isar.

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

From Latin -ismus.

-ismo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ismi)

1. -ism (all senses)

   ‎attendere (“to wait”) + ‎-ismo → ‎attendismo (“wait-and-see doctrine”)

   ‎Trump + ‎-ismo → ‎trumpismo (“Trumpism”)

   ‎alcol (“alcohol”) + ‎-ismo → ‎alcolismo (“alcoholism”)

   ‎arcaico (“archaic”) + ‎-ismo → ‎arcaismo (“archaism”)

   ‎organo (“organ”) + ‎-ismo → ‎organismo (“organism”)

   ‎scacchi (“chess”) + ‎-ismo → ‎scacchismo (“chess play”)

• miso, miso-, simo, somi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪs.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiz.mo]

-ismō m

1. dative/ablative singular of -ismus

Learned borrowing from Latin -ismus, from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós), from -ίζω (-ízō) + -μός (-mós).

• Hyphenation: -is‧mo

-ismo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ismos)

1. -ism

The following ending(s) change(s) in words appended with this suffix:

• ⟨-ição⟩ (being part of a hiatus in feminine nouns, incl. plurals) → ⟨-(i)cion⟩
• ⟨-ção⟩, ⟨-são⟩ (in feminine nouns, incl. plurals) → ⟨-cion⟩, ⟨-sion⟩
• ⟨-ão⟩ (as a non-verb suffix, incl. plurals) → ⟨-on⟩
• ⟨-ã(o)⟩ (incl. plurals) → ⟨-(i)an⟩, ⟨-am⟩, or ⟨-(i)on⟩, depending on the base word's etymology
• ⟨-m⟩ (incl. plurals) → ⟨-n⟩
• ⟨-z⟩ (in some nouns from Latin, incl. plurals) → ⟨-c(i)⟩
• ⟨-vel⟩ (unstressed and adjectival, incl. plurals) → ⟨-bil⟩
• ⟨-z⟩ (adjectival, incl. plurals) → ⟨-c⟩
• ⟨-dade⟩ (as a noun suffix, incl. plurals) → ⟨-t⟩

Borrowed from Latin -ismus, from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós), often already present in words taken (either via Latin, or directly) from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈismo/ [ˈiz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: -is‧mo

-ismo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ismos)

1. -ism

• “-ismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish -ismo, from Latin -ismus, from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈismo/ [ˈis.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: -is‧mo

-ismo (noun-forming suffix, Baybayin spelling ᜒᜐ᜔ᜋᜓ)

1. -ism

• -ista

• imos, miso