Where does “semirigide” come from?

semirigide (French) comes from French rigide, from Latin rigidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.

semirigide (French): semirigid

Definitions

  1. semirigid

Ancestry of “semirigide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchrigiderigid
2Latinrigidusstiff, rigid, hard, inflexible; stern, strict,...
3Latin-idustending to
4Proto-Italic*-iðos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-iðos →Every word from Latin -idus →Every word from Latin rigidus →