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Where does “Seminar” come from?

Seminar (German) comes from Latin sēminārium, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

Seminar (German): seminar; department; seminary

Definitions

  1. seminar; department; seminary

Ancestry of “Seminar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsēminārium—
2Latin-ārium—
3Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
4Proto-Italic*-om—
5Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “Seminar”

  • seminar
  • teleseminar
  • proseminar
  • seminarlike
  • e-seminar
  • seminaari
  • proseminaari
  • ゼミナール
  • セミナー
  • semina
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