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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- charisma (n.)
- "gift of leadership, power of authority," c.1930, from
German, used in this sense by Max Weber (1864-1920) in "Wirtschaft
u. Gesellschaft" (1922), from Gk. kharisma /χάρισμα "favor, divine
gift," from kharizesthai/χαρίζεσθαι "to show favor to," from
kharis/χάρις "grace, beauty, kindness" (Charis/Χάρις was the name of
one of the three attendants of Aphrodite/Αφροδίτη) related to khairein/χαίρειν "to
rejoice at," from PIE root *gher- "to desire, like"
(see hortatory).
More mundane sense of "personal charm" recorded by 1959.
Earlier, the word had been used in English with a sense of "grace, talent from God" (1875), directly from Latinized Greek; and in the form charism (pl. charismata) it is attested in English from 1640s. Middle English, meanwhile, had karisme "spiritual gift, divine grace" (c.1500).
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