sedes
[ˈseː.deːs] · noun
Meaning
- seat, chair
- place, residence, settlement, habitation, abode
- second-person singular present active indicative of sedeō
Etymology / origin
Ultimately from sedeō (“to sit”) + -ēs, though Latin and Proto-Italic did not productively form nouns from verbs by changing the vowel grade. The word's lengthened grade is similar to Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), and ultimately they likely have a common origin, though divergence in the suffixes leaves the exact ancestral protoform obscure.
- *sētiją(gem-pro)→
- *sed-(ine-pro)→
- sedes (Latin)
- Relations: root, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- sedan(English) (der)
- Sedisvakanz(German) (der)
- *sedom(Proto-Celtic) (cog)
- *sīdos(Proto-Celtic) (cog)
- seo(Spanish) (der)
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