Etymology

sedum

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Today it means: Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop. Full definition →

Middle English cedum ← Latin sedum ← translingual Sedum
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The story

  1. translingual · semantic loan fromSedum
  2. Latin · derived fromsedum“houseleek”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromcedum
  4. English todaysedum

From Middle English cedum, from Latin sedum (“houseleek”). Modern usage is a semantic loan from translingual Sedum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.