défaitiste
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Russian writer Grigorij Aleksinskij as calque of Russian пораженец (poraženec).[1][2] Also coined by him as a derivation of поражение (poraženije, “defeat”). By surface analysis, défaite (“defeat”) + -iste (“-ist”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]défaitiste (plural défaitistes)
Noun
[edit]défaitiste m or f by sense (plural défaitistes)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: defeatist
- → German: Defätist
- → Italian: disfattista
References
[edit]- ^ Grigory Aleksinsky (1915) La Russie Moderne [Modern Russia] (in French), 2nd edition
- ^ Catherine Slater (1980 October) “Note critique sur l'origine de « défaitisme » et « défaitiste »”, in Mots. Les langages du politique (in French), , pages 213–217
Further reading
[edit]- “défaitiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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