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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French altruisme.
Pronunciation
Noun
altruisme m (uncountable)
- altruism
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French
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
altruisme m (plural altruismes)
- altruism
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Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, affixed altruis + -isme, borrowed from Dutch altruïsme, from French altruisme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: al‧tru‧is‧mê
Noun
altruismê (first-person possessive altruismeku, second-person possessive altruismemu, third-person possessive altruismenya)
- altruism
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