English
centralization
Centralization comes from French centralisation ‘centralization, centralisation’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcentralisation‘centralization, centralisation’
- Englishearliest quotation 2025centralization
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentcentralisation‘centralization, centralisation’
- Englishearliest quotation 2025centralization
Earliest quotation: 2025, Can democracy survive without America?: “V-Dem lists the characteristics of autocratization as deteriorations in…”
Formed from central + -ization
Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom ‘pointed tool’
Proto-Hellenic *kéntron
Ancient Greek κέντρον ‘something with a sharp point: point’
Latin centrum ‘centre’
Latin centrālis ‘central’
English central
Linked words
through French centralisation ‘centralization, centralisation’
Today it means
noun The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French centralisation / centralization