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
- A combination of events which have come together...
Ancestry of “serendipity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Serendip | variant of "Serendib": Ceylon, Sri Lanka |
| 2 | Persian | سرندیپ | — |
Words derived from “serendipity”