Etymology

semicola

sem·i·cola
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English cola ← Latin sēmi- ← Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Englishcola
  6. English todaysemicola

From semi- (prefix meaning ‘half’) + cola (“plural of colon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.