Etymology

seriation

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Today it means: the arrangement of things in a series Full definition →

English seriate ← Latin seriēs ← Proto-Italic *serō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ser-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*séreti
  3. Proto-Italic*serō
  4. Latinserō
  5. Latinseriēs
  6. Englishseri(es)
  7. Englishseriate
  8. English todayseriation

From seriate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.