The story
- Latin · borrowed fromēgerminō“to sprout”
- Latin · borrowed fromēgermināt-
- English todayegerminate
From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.