sedenter

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

• sedentair (unadapted borrowing)
• sedentari (Standard Malay)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sedentair (“sedentary”), from French sédentaire (“sedentary”), from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /seˈdentɛr/ [seˈden̪.t̪ɛr]
• Rhymes: -entɛr
• Syllabification: se‧den‧ter

Adjective

sedenter (comparative lebih sedenter, superlative paling sedenter)

1. sedentary
   1. not moving, not migratory
   2. (anthropology) living in a fixed geographical location
   3. (medicine) not moving much; sitting around.

Noun

sedenter (plural sedenter-sedenter)

1. sedentary person

Further reading

• “sedenter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016