English
consumerist
From consumer + -ist.
A compound of consume + -er + consumer
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti
Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’
Latin emō ‘to buy, purchase’
Latin sūmō ‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
Latin cōnsūmō ‘to take wholly or completely’
Old French consumer
Middle English consumen
English consume
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti
Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’
Latin emō ‘to buy, purchase’
Latin sūmō ‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
Latin cōnsūmō ‘to take wholly or completely’
Old French consumer
Middle English consumen
English consume
English consumer
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / consumerist