transformism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin transformo Old French transformer Middle French transfourmerbor. Middle English transformen English transform Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English transformism From transform + -ism.
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(countable, qualifier:evolutionary theory, uncountable) The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.
In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.
1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:
- (countable, uncountable) Synonym of trasformismo.
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it trasformismo (the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter) · fr transformisme (the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter) · pt transformismo (the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter) · es transformismo (the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter)