First attest 1539, from Germanic or French protestant, from Latin protestantem (nominative form protestans), past particple of protestari. Originally used of Germanic princes and free cities who declared their dissent from the decision of the Diet of Speyer (1529) denouncing the (Catholic) Reformation. The word was taken up by the Lutherans in Germany (Swiss and French preferred Reformed). It became the general word for "adherents of the Reformation in Germany," then "member of any Western church outside the Roman communion;" a sense first attested in English in 1553.
Protestantism originated around 1539. The word comes from German and French, protestant.
Protesting against the Catholics in the British Isles. *Actually the name originated earlier than that. The term is tied to those groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. If you click on the 'related links' below that will take you to a wikipedia page on the Protestant Reformation that will give you all the details.
The word prod is used as a disparaging term for a Protestant. It is hard to say where it originated exactly, but one would assume it originated within Christian circles, sometime after the formation of Protestantism, which would put it after the beginning of the 16th century, and would likely have originated in a prominent Christian country of that era.
the word entree was originated from France
French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries were called Huguenots.
Another answer from our community:The term Protestant is the name for rebel groups of Christians because they are the groups the "protested" the faith. Protestant comes from the word protest.
The word "curriculum" originated from the Latin language.
He converted from Catholicism and became a Protestant.
Yes, it means where something originated or came from.
The word blacksmith originated from the Old English word, smythe. It is also possible it originated from the German word, smithaz.
do you capitalize the word protestant
The protestant reformation began in the 1500's