Etymograph

English

immiseration

From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ation (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results), a variant of immiserization.

Formed from in- + miserable + -ation

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin miserārī

Latin miserabilis ‘pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable,…’

Middle French miserable

English miserable

The story

From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ation (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results), a variant of immiserization.

Today it means

noun Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).

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