nazi.

Borrowed from German Nazi (“Nazi”), a colloquial clipping of Nationalsozialist (“National Socialist”), in this political use denoting a member or supporter of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The German source word is formed from national (“national”) and Sozialist (“socialist”), whose elements ultimately continue Latin nātiō (“birth; people, nation”) and socius (“companion, ally”). First attested in 1931. The clipping was modelled on German Sozi (“socialist; Social Democrat”), a colloquial shortening of Sozialist (“socialist”) or Sozialdemokrat (“Social Democrat”). Its adoption was probably encouraged by its coincidence with an older Bavarian and Austrian Nazi, a pet form of Ignaz which was also used disparagingly for a foolish or clumsy person or a yokel. This older word may have influenced the political clipping's connotations but was not its direct semantic source. The 1931 Norwegian quotation uses the now-obsolete sense “the Nazi Party”; the individual-adherent sense is attested from 1932. The Norwegian adjective arose by conversion from the noun. The compound-initial form nazi- (“Nazi-”) is a shortened form of nazistisk (“Nazi, National Socialist”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk nazi, Danish nazi, English Nazi, Dutch nazi, French nazi, Catalan nazi, Spanish nazi, Portuguese nazi and Italian nazi (“Nazi”).

Borrowed from German Nazi (“Nazi”), a colloquial clipping of Nationalsozialist (“National Socialist”), in this political use denoting a member or supporter of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The German source word is formed from national (“national”) and Sozialist (“socialist”), whose elements ultimately continue Latin nātiō (“birth; people, nation”) and socius (“companion, ally”). First attested in 1931. The clipping was modelled on German Sozi (“socialist; Social Democrat”), a colloquial shortening of Sozialist (“socialist”) or Sozialdemokrat (“Social Democrat”). Its adoption was probably encouraged by its coincidence with an older Bavarian and Austrian Nazi, a pet form of Ignaz which was also used disparagingly for a foolish or clumsy person or a yokel. This older word may have influenced the political clipping's connotations but was not its direct semantic source. The 1931 Norwegian quotation uses the now-obsolete sense “the Nazi Party”; the individual-adherent sense is attested from 1932. The Norwegian adjective arose by conversion from the noun. The compound-initial form nazi- (“Nazi-”) is a shortened form of nazistisk (“Nazi, National Socialist”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk nazi, Danish nazi, English Nazi, Dutch nazi, French nazi, Catalan nazi, Spanish nazi, Portuguese nazi and Italian nazi (“Nazi”).