Etymology

semicoherent

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Today it means: Partially coherent. Full definition →

English coherent ← Middle French coherent ← Latin cohaerēns
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Latincohaereō
  6. Latincohaerēns
  7. Middle Frenchcoherent
  8. Englishcoherent
  9. English todaysemicoherent

From semi- + coherent.

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