Where does “serendipity” come from?

Serendipity derives from English Serendip plus French -ité, Latin -itas, and Proto-Indo-European -it-, forming a noun denoting the quality of finding valuable things by chance.

serendipity (English): A combination of events which have come together...

Definitions

  1. A combination of events which have come together...

Ancestry of “serendipity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSerendipvariant of "Serendib": Ceylon, Sri Lanka
2PersianسرندیپSri Lanka, Ceylon, Serendib, Serendip

Words derived from “serendipity

Every word from Persian سرندیپEvery word from English Serendip