atavism

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• General-American: /ˈætəˌvɪzəm/
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• General-American: [ˈæɾəˌvɪzəm]
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 T AH0 V IH0 Z AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin at- Proto-Indo-European *h2éwh2os Latin avus Latin atavus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French atavismebor. English atavism Borrowed from French atavisme.. By surface analysis, at- (“to”) + Latin av(us) (“grandfather, ancestor”) + -ism. Compare ancestorism.

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: atavizëm — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Bashkir: атавизм (atavizm) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Catalan: atavisme — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Chinese Mandarin: 隔代遺傳 /隔代遗传 (gédài yíchuán) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Chinese Mandarin: 返祖現象 /返祖现象 (fǎnzǔ xiànxiàng) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Czech: atavismus — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Finnish: atavismi — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• French: atavisme — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Galician: atavismo — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• German: Atavismus — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Greek: αταβισμός (atavismós) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Hungarian: atavizmus — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Icelandic: áalíking — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Ido: atavismo — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Italian: atavismo — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Japanese: 先祖返り (senzogaeri) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Kazakh: атавизм (atavizm) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Kyrgyz: атавизм (atavizm) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Manx: aaghooghys — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Norwegian: atavisme — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Polish: atawizm — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Portuguese: atavismo — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Romanian: atavism — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Russian: атави́зм (atavízm) — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Slovak: atavizmus — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Spanish: atavismo — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic
• Volapük: taavist — reappearance of an ancestral characteristic