Unscramble

p 3 r 1 o 1 l 1 e 1 t 1 a 1 r 1 i 1 a 1 t 1

11 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

originBorrowed from French prolétariat, from prolétaire + -at, from Latin proletārius, from prōlēt- (“offspring”) + -ārius, from stem of prōlēs, from pro- + *olēs (“growth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). By surface analysis, Latin prōlēt- + -ary + -at.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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