anticlericalism

English

Alternative forms

• anti-clericalism

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)

Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.

English anti-

English clerical

English anticlerical

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 -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English anticlericalism

From anticlerical + -ism.

Noun

anticlericalism (uncountable)

1. The opposition to political influence of clerics.

   Antonym: clericocracy

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 310:

     But contacts of this kind between a senior politician of the Republic and the Catholic Church were matters of the greatest delicacy in pre-1914 France, where anticlericalism was the default setting of the political culture.

Related terms

• anticleric
• declericalize

Translations

opposition to political influence of clerics

• Azerbaijani: antiklerikalizm
• Bulgarian: антиклерикализъм (bg) m (antiklerikalizăm)
• Catalan: anticlericalisme m
• Czech: antiklerikalismus (cs) m
• Dutch: antiklerikalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: antiklerikalismo
• Finnish: antiklerikalismi
• French: anticléricalisme (fr) m
• German: Antiklerikalismus (de) m
• Hungarian: antiklerikalizmus (hu)
• Indonesian: antiklerikalisme
• Italian: anticlericalismo (it) m
• Lithuanian: antiklerikalizmas m
• Polish: antyklerykalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anticlericalismo m
• Romanian: anticlericalism (ro) n
• Russian: антиклерикали́зм (ru) m (antiklerikalízm)
• Slovak: antiklerikalizmus m
• Slovene: antiklerikalizem m
• Tagalog: antiklerikalismo
• Turkish: antiklerikalizm
• Ukrainian: антиклерикалізм m (antyklerykalizm)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anticléricalisme. By surface analysis, anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

anticlericalism n (uncountable)

1. anticlericalism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anticlericalism	anticlericalismul
genitive-dative	anticlericalism	anticlericalismului
vocative	anticlericalismule