Editing Pan-Germanism (section)

== Etymology ==
The word ''pan'' is a [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] word element meaning "all, every, whole, all-inclusive". The word "German" in this context derives from [[Latin language|Latin]] "Germani" originally used by [[Julius Caesar]] referring to tribes or a single tribe in northeastern [[Gaul]]. In the [[Late Middle Ages]], it acquired a loose meaning referring to the speakers of [[Germanic languages]] some of whom spoke dialects ancestral to [[German language|modern German]]. In English, "Pan-German" was first attested in 1892.

In German various concepts can be included under the heading of Pan-Germanism, though often with slight or significant differences in meaning. For example adjectives such as "alldeutsch" or "gesamtdeutsch", which can be translated as "pan-german", typically refer to the Alldeutsche Bewegung, a political movement which sought to unite all German speaking people in one country,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kruse |first=Wolfgang |date=2012-09-27 |title=Nation und Nationalismus |url=https://www.bpb.de/themen/kolonialismus-imperialismus/kaiserreich/138915/nation-und-nationalismus/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung}}</ref> whereas "Pangermanismus" can refer to both the pursuit of uniting all the German-speaking people and movements which sought to unify all speakers of Germanic languages.<ref>Toni Cetta; Georg Kreis: "Pangermanismus", in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), Version of 23.09.2010. Online: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/017464/2010-09-23/, last seen 21.04.2023.</ref>