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- Latin · derived fromprōminēns
- French · derived fromprominent
- English todayprominent
From obsolete French prominent (compare proéminent), from Latin prōminēns, present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, to project”), from prō (“before, forward”) + mineō (in compounds, “jut, project”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.