semen

third-person plural present indicative of semar

third-person plural present subjunctive of semar


semen

Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:

In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.

en-noun

semen (usually uncountable, plural semens)

From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).


semen

cement, the layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

Borrowed from Dutch cement (“cement”), from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“I cut, hew”). Cognate with Afrikaans sement (“cement”). The sense “cementum” is a semantic loan from English cement.


semen

(medicine) semen, the fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.

Learned borrowing from Latin sēmen (“semen, seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).


semen

Sēmen manū spargere.

‘prīma per immēnsās sparsī nova sēmina gentēs!

“First [it was] I [who] scattered new seeds throughout countless nations!
Previously the earth was of [but] one color.”
(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)

et ignis sēmina convolvunt ē nūbibus.

c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6

and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

(poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))

la-noun

sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension

sēmen (canonical neuter)
sēminis (genitive)
sēmen (nominative singular)
sēmina (nominative plural)
sēminis (genitive singular)
sēminum (genitive plural)
sēminī (dative singular)
sēminibus (dative plural)
sēmen (accusative singular)
sēmina (accusative plural)
sēmine (ablative singular)
sēminibus (ablative plural)
sēmen (singular vocative)
sēmina (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: semen

→ English: semen

→ Middle Irish: semen

Irish: seamhan

Galician: seme

Italian: seme

Romanian: sămânță

Portuguese: sêmen, sémen (Portugal)

Romansch: sem

→ Spanish: semen, ⇒ semilla

Venetan: sema

From Proto-Italic *sēmən, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”).


semen

(Early Middle English) To sort out; to resolve, subdue, or confirm.

enm-verb

semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semende, semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed)

semeth (present singular third-person)
semende (participle present)
semynge (participle present)
semed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
semen (infinitive)
to semen (infinitive)
seme (infinitive)
seme (first-person present singular)
semed (first-person past singular)
semest (present second-person singular)
semedest (past second-person singular)
semeth (present singular third-person)
semed (past singular third-person)
seme (present singular subjunctive)
semed (past singular subjunctive)
seme (imperative present singular)
semen (plural present)
seme (plural present)
semeden (past plural)
semede (past plural)
semeth (imperative plural present)
seme (imperative plural present)
semynge (participle present)
semende (participle present)
semed (participle past)
ysemed (participle past)

Inherited from Old English sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *sōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną.


semen

14ᵗʰ Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale
The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
So hidously þat with þe leste strook
That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

To seem (to be); to look or be perceived as.

To appear; to become visible or discernible.

To believe or assume; to develop a belief:

To deem or consider; to form a judgement.

To consider to be appropriate; to judge as suitable.

To be appropriate or right; to suit or befit.

English: seem

Scots: seem

Borrowed from Old Norse sœma, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną, thus a doublet of Etymology 1.


semen

(figuratively, rare) To be burdensome or grievous.

semeth (present singular third-person)
semende (participle present)
semynge (participle present)
semed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
semen (infinitive)
to semen (infinitive)
seme (infinitive)
seme (first-person present singular)
semed (first-person past singular)
semde (first-person past singular)
semest (present second-person singular)
semedest (past second-person singular)
semdest (past second-person singular)
semeth (present singular third-person)
semed (past singular third-person)
semde (past singular third-person)
seme (present singular subjunctive)
semed (past singular subjunctive)
semde (past singular subjunctive)
seme (imperative present singular)
semen (plural present)
seme (plural present)
semeden (past plural)
semede (past plural)
semden (past plural)
semde (past plural)
semeth (imperative plural present)
seme (imperative plural present)
semynge (participle present)
semende (participle present)
semed (participle past)
ysemed (participle past)

Inherited from Old English sīman, sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *saumijan; equivalent to seem (“load”) + -en (infinitival suffix).


semen

semeni (plural)
semen (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
semenul (accusative definite nominative singular)
semeni (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
semenii (accusative definite nominative plural)
semen (indefinite singular)
semenului (definite singular)
semeni (indefinite singular)
semenilor (definite plural)
semenule (singular vocative)
semenilor (vocative)


semen

Mi amigo me preguntó si era saludable tragarse su propio semen.

My friend asked me if it was healthy to swallow his own semen.

La última vez que estuve en un acto sexual yo era el semen.

The last time I was in a sex act I was the semen.


semen

semen (nominative singular)
semned (nominative plural)
semnen (accusative singular)
semned (accusative plural)
semnen (genitive singular)
semniden (genitive plural)
sement (partitive singular)
semnid (partitive plural)
semnen (essive-instructive singular)
semnin (essive-instructive plural)
semneks (singular translative)
semnikš (plural translative)
semnes (inessive singular)
semniš (inessive plural)
semnespäi (elative singular)
semnišpäi (elative plural)
semnehe (illative singular)
semnihe (illative plural)
semnel (adessive singular)
semnil (adessive plural)
semnelpäi (ablative singular)
semnilpäi (ablative plural)
semnele (allative singular)
semnile (allative plural)
semneta (abessive singular)
semnita (abessive plural)
semnenke (comitative singular)
semnidenke (comitative plural)
sementme (prolative singular)
semnidme (plural prolative)
semnenno (approximative approximative-i singular)
semnidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
semnennoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
semnidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
semnennopäi (egressive singular)
semnidennopäi (egressive plural)
semnehesai (singular terminative terminative-i)
semnihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
semnelesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
semnilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
semnessai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
semnehepäi (additive additive-i singular)
semnihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
semnelepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
semnilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)

From Proto-Finnic *seemen, from a Baltic language, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.