Etymograph

English

immiserization

From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ization (suffix denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something, forming nouns), a translation of German Verelendung (“immiseration, impoverishment”).

Formed from in- + miserable + -ization

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin miserārī

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

Middle French miserable

English miserable

Today it means

noun The process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization.

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

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