demi-vegetarian

noun

A person who eats fish but not meat.

OriginEnglish vegetarian ← Middle English vegetable ← Old French vegetable →
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Meanings

noundemi-vegetarian (plural demi-vegetarians)

plural demi-vegetarians

  1. A person who eats fish but not meat.
  2. A person who eats seafood and poultry.
  3. A demitarian; a person who makes conscious effort to reduce meat consumption largely for environmental reasons

Origin

  1. Latindis-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*me
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  5. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  6. Proto-Italic*meðios
  7. Latinmedius
  8. Latindīmidius
  9. Vulgar Latin*dimedius
  10. Anglo-Normandemi
  11. Middle Englishdemi
  12. Englishdemi-
  13. Latinvegetābilis
  14. Old Frenchvegetable
  15. Middle Englishvegetable
  16. Englishvegetable
  17. Englishvegetarian
  18. Englishdemi-vegetarian

From demi- + vegetarian.

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