Etymology

semivegetarian

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Today it means: One who does not eat certain kinds of flesh (often red meat). Full definition →

English vegetarian ← Middle English vegetable ← Old French vegetable
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Latinvegetābilis
  6. Old Frenchvegetable
  7. Middle Englishvegetable
  8. Englishvegetable
  9. Englishvegetarian
  10. English todaysemivegetarian

From semi- + vegetarian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.