Etymology

semirural

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Today it means: Moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing Full definition →

English rural ← Latin sēmi- ← Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Englishrural
  6. English todaysemirural

From semi- + rural.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.