Where does “ゼミナール” come from?
ゼミナール (Japanese) comes from German Seminar, from Latin sēminārium, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
ゼミナール (Japanese): seminar
Ancestry of “ゼミナール”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Seminar | seminar; department; seminary |
| 2 | Latin | sēminārium | — |
| 3 | Latin | -ārium | — |
| 4 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |