Etymology

semilunar

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Today it means: Shaped like a half-moon; crescent-shaped. Full definition →

English lunar ← 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. Englishlunar
  6. English todaysemilunar

From semi- + lunar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.