Etymograph

English

fixism

From fix + -ism.

A compound of fix + -ism

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- ‘to jab’

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Latin fīxus ‘immovable’

Old French fix ‘fastened’

Old French *fixer

Middle English fixen

English fix

Today it means

noun The theory that the species alive today are identical to those of the past and that evolution does not happen.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fixism