Where does “semirigide” come from?
semirigide (French) comes from French rigide, from Latin rigidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
semirigide (French): semirigid
Ancestry of “semirigide”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | rigide | rigid |
| 2 | Latin | rigidus | stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible; stern, strict,... |
| 3 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |