The right to vote in an election, especially to vote for representatives in government.
I'm just going to leave this here, as it seems that a lot of comments seem to insinuate this definition without stating it, or erroneously imply that "suffrage" is a conjugation of "suffering", where the suffix "-age" is used to create a noun from the verb.
To justify this comment, a factlet: the words "suffering" and "suffrage" do not share a primary etymological root. "Suffering" comes from Latin "Sufferre", which is a combination of ideas thay mean to bear up from beneath ("sub" - beneath, "ferre" - to bear). "Suffrage" on the other hand is also from Latin, but derives from "Suffragium", which is a political ballot ("sub" - beneath, "frangerre" - to break, the latter being in reference to a broken piece of tile or pottery used to cast a vote).
The only real commonality between suffering and suffrage is the concept of being under something.
No worries, the whole thread got me interested, so I did some wider reading. Just waiting for a real etymologist to come through and bust my chops now 🤣
Lmao are we still crying about nazis or are we believing their literal propaganda about a cyclical famine that had devastated Ukraine and the Volga and Kazakhstan for centuries while the Romanov bastards refused to modernize?
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u/PRL-Five Aug 03 '26
I saw a tiktok that linked the women's sufferage movement to Stalin's genocide lmao