The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσήμαντρον“a seal, signet, in MGr. a semantron”
- English todaysemantron
From Ancient Greek σήμαντρον (sḗmantron, “a seal, signet, in MGr. a semantron”), from σημαίνειν (sēmaínein, “to show by a sign, signify, in MGr. strike a semantron”), from σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.