altruisme

Borrowed from French altruisme.

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

altruisme m (uncountable)

1. altruism

• altruista

• “altruisme”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Coined by Auguste Comte in 1830, from autrui +‎ -isme. From Old French, from 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”).

• IPA^(key): /al.tʁɥism/ ~ /al.tʁɥizm/

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

altruisme m (plural altruismes)

1. altruism

• altruiste

• → Dutch: altruïsme
  • → Indonesian: altruismê
• → English: altruism
• → German: Altruismus
• → Russian: альтруизм (alʹtruizm)
  • → Georgian: ალტრუიზმი (alṭruizmi)
  • → Kazakh: альтруизм (altruizm)

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “altruisme”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• “altruisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mutileras, stimulera, trémulais

Internationalism, affixed altruis +‎ -isme, borrowed from Dutch altruïsme, from French altruisme.

• IPA^(key): [altruˈɪsmə]
• Hyphenation: al‧tru‧is‧mê

altruismê (plural altruisme-altruisme)

1. altruism

• “altruisme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.