The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσημεῖον“sign”
- English todaysemon
From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on. By surface analysis, seme + -on.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσημεῖον all →
semiologysemeionsemio-tetrasemic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.