Etymograph

English

sederunt

Sederunt comes from Latin sedeō ‘there were sitting’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-1‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-éh₁-ye-ti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedēō1‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsedeō2as sederunt‘there were sitting’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1844sederunt2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin sedeo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sederunt
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius: “'Tis pity we have not Burn's own account of…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-Wiktionary, Latin sedeo‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-éh₁-ye-tiWiktionary, Latin sedeoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedēōWiktionary, Latin sedeo‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsedeōWiktionary, English sederuntas sederunt‘there were sitting’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1844sederuntWiktionary, English sederunt. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius: “'Tis pity we have not Burn's own account of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, sit, sitting, method, sell, chair, seat, settle, nest, niche, possess, saddle, exodus, subsidy, nye, prasad, soot, beset, cathode, anode, setter, sate, chaise, besiege, salo, ersatz, nidal, nias, polyhedron, 79 more

through Proto-Italic *sedēō ‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’

possession, obsession, assessor, presidente, assize, 22 more

through Latin sedeō ‘there were sitting’

president, size, session, resident, siege, assess, residue, residual, reside, insidious, sedan, possessive, sediment, dissident, obsess, sedative, presidio, sedentary, presidium, sedate, sessile, seance, 26 more

Today it means

noun A formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sederunt”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin sedeo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / sederunt

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