See semen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Sex",
"orig": "la:Sex",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēmentifer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēmentis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminālia"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminālis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminārium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminārius"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminātiō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminātor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminifer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminiverbius"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sēminōsus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "seme"
},
{
"lang": "Romansh",
"lang_code": "rm",
"word": "sem"
},
{
"lang": "Venetan",
"lang_code": "vec",
"word": "sema"
},
{
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"word": "seamhan"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Irish",
"lang_code": "mga",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "seme"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "sêmen"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"tags": [
"Portugal"
],
"word": "sémen"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed",
"reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
],
"word": "semilla"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "itc-pro:*sēmn̥"
},
"expansion": "[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*sēmn̥\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"semen\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"semen\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*sēmn̥"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *sēmn̥",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*séh₁mn̥",
"4": "",
"5": "seed"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *sēmn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sēmen",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminis",
"links": [
[
"sēminis",
"seminis"
]
],
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminis",
"links": [
[
"sēminis",
"seminis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminum",
"links": [
[
"sēminum",
"seminum#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminī",
"links": [
[
"sēminī",
"semini#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminibus",
"links": [
[
"sēminibus",
"seminibus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmine",
"links": [
[
"sēmine",
"semine#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminibus",
"links": [
[
"sēminibus",
"seminibus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sēmen<3>"
},
"expansion": "sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sēmen<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
11,
15
]
],
"english": "To scatter seed by hand.",
"text": "Sēmen manū spargere.",
"translation": "To scatter seed by hand.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.52",
"text": "Omittō enim vim ipsam omnium, quae generantur ē terrā; quae ex fīcī tantulō grānō aut ex acinī vīnāceō aut ex cēterārum frūgum aut stirpium minūtissimīs sēminibus tantōs truncōs rāmōsque prōcreet.\nFor I pass over the inherent power of all things that are born of the earth — [that force] which, from so small a fig seed or grape-stone, or the tiniest seeds of other fruits and plants, can bring forth such massive trunks and branches.\n(Note the distinction made between a comparatively large granum and the smallest sēmen.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "“First [it was] I [who] scattered new seeds throughout countless nations!\nPreviously the earth was of [but] one color.”\n(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.221–222",
"roman": "ūnīus tellūs ante colōris erat.’",
"text": "‘prīma per immēnsās sparsī nova sēmina gentēs!",
"translation": "“First [it was] I [who] scattered new seeds throughout countless nations!\nPreviously the earth was of [but] one color.”\n(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "\"A farmer went out to sow his seed...\"",
"ref": "LVCAS, IIX V",
"text": "Īvit sator quīdam satum suum sēmen...",
"translation": "\"A farmer went out to sow his seed...\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seed (of plants)"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-goZIbi~V",
"links": [
[
"seed",
"seed"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"semen"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-LDLBVs8a",
"links": [
[
"semen",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"graft"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-TnYumQPu",
"links": [
[
"graft",
"graft"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 5 5 61 5 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 12 12 28 12 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"offspring"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-bPXuCc6h",
"links": [
[
"offspring",
"offspring"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"cause"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-an7x7Z8V",
"links": [
[
"cause",
"cause"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 15 15 24 15 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 16 16 19 16 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "la:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.",
"ref": "c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6",
"text": "et ignis sēmina convolvunt ē nūbibus.",
"translation": "and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))"
],
"id": "en-semen-la-noun-hPknM26M",
"links": [
[
"seed",
"seed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈseː.mɛn]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsɛː.men]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "semen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with etymon",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin neuter nouns",
"Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *seh₁- (sow)",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 14 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymon",
"la:Bodily fluids",
"la:Sex"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "sēmentifer"
},
{
"word": "sēmentis"
},
{
"word": "sēminālia"
},
{
"word": "sēminālis"
},
{
"word": "sēminārium"
},
{
"word": "sēminārius"
},
{
"word": "sēminātiō"
},
{
"word": "sēminātor"
},
{
"word": "sēminifer"
},
{
"word": "sēminium"
},
{
"word": "sēminiverbius"
},
{
"word": "sēminō"
},
{
"word": "sēminōsus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "seme"
},
{
"lang": "Romansh",
"lang_code": "rm",
"word": "sem"
},
{
"lang": "Venetan",
"lang_code": "vec",
"word": "sema"
},
{
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"word": "seamhan"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Irish",
"lang_code": "mga",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "seme"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "sêmen"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"tags": [
"Portugal"
],
"word": "sémen"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "semen"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed",
"reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
],
"word": "semilla"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "itc-pro:*sēmn̥"
},
"expansion": "[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*sēmn̥\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"semen\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"semen\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*sēmn̥"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *sēmn̥",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*séh₁mn̥",
"4": "",
"5": "seed"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *sēmn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sēmen",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminis",
"links": [
[
"sēminis",
"seminis"
]
],
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminis",
"links": [
[
"sēminis",
"seminis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminum",
"links": [
[
"sēminum",
"seminum#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminī",
"links": [
[
"sēminī",
"semini#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminibus",
"links": [
[
"sēminibus",
"seminibus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmine",
"links": [
[
"sēmine",
"semine#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sēminibus",
"links": [
[
"sēminibus",
"seminibus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmen",
"links": [
[
"sēmen",
"semen#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sēmina",
"links": [
[
"sēmina",
"semina#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sēmen<3>"
},
"expansion": "sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sēmen<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
11,
15
]
],
"english": "To scatter seed by hand.",
"text": "Sēmen manū spargere.",
"translation": "To scatter seed by hand.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.52",
"text": "Omittō enim vim ipsam omnium, quae generantur ē terrā; quae ex fīcī tantulō grānō aut ex acinī vīnāceō aut ex cēterārum frūgum aut stirpium minūtissimīs sēminibus tantōs truncōs rāmōsque prōcreet.\nFor I pass over the inherent power of all things that are born of the earth — [that force] which, from so small a fig seed or grape-stone, or the tiniest seeds of other fruits and plants, can bring forth such massive trunks and branches.\n(Note the distinction made between a comparatively large granum and the smallest sēmen.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "“First [it was] I [who] scattered new seeds throughout countless nations!\nPreviously the earth was of [but] one color.”\n(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.221–222",
"roman": "ūnīus tellūs ante colōris erat.’",
"text": "‘prīma per immēnsās sparsī nova sēmina gentēs!",
"translation": "“First [it was] I [who] scattered new seeds throughout countless nations!\nPreviously the earth was of [but] one color.”\n(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "\"A farmer went out to sow his seed...\"",
"ref": "LVCAS, IIX V",
"text": "Īvit sator quīdam satum suum sēmen...",
"translation": "\"A farmer went out to sow his seed...\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seed (of plants)"
],
"links": [
[
"seed",
"seed"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"semen"
],
"links": [
[
"semen",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"graft"
],
"links": [
[
"graft",
"graft"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"offspring"
],
"links": [
[
"offspring",
"offspring"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"cause"
],
"links": [
[
"cause",
"cause"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin poetic terms",
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.",
"ref": "c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6",
"text": "et ignis sēmina convolvunt ē nūbibus.",
"translation": "and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))"
],
"links": [
[
"seed",
"seed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈseː.mɛn]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsɛː.men]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "semen"
}
Download raw JSONL data for semen meaning in Latin (7.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.