## Etymology
From French communisme, from commun ('common'), from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office'). Popularized in the mid-19th century.

## AI Etymology
Communism comes from French communisme, from commun ('common'), from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office'). Popularized in the mid-19th century. The historical trail runs through communis in Latin and munus in Latin. Morphologically, communism is transparent: it draws on French communisme, from commun ('common'), from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office'). Used as a noun, communism now means "a system advocating communal ownership of the means of production", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as communist and communistic and related forms such as commune, common, community, and communal. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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