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单词 semen
释义

semen

See also: Semen, sémen, semèn, and sêmen

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːmən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmən
  • Homophones: seaman, seamen

Noun

semen (usually uncountable, plural semens)

  1. A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
    • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:
      Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
      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.

Synonyms

  • (Male reproductory fluid): ejaculate, sperm; (slang): jissom, jism, jizz, spunk, cum, seed, spurt, spooge, splooge, load, skeet, squirt, spunk, nut
  • See also Thesaurus:semen

Derived terms

  • semenlike
  • semenologist
  • semeny

Translations

semen (fluid) — see sperm

Anagrams

  • menes, mense, mesen, mesne, neems

Asturian

Verb

semen

  1. third-person plural present indicative of semar
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of semar

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēmen.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.mən/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.men/

Noun

semen m (plural sèmens or sémens)

  1. semen, sperm
    Synonym: esperma

Further reading

  • “semen” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛmɛn]

Noun

semen

  1. genitive plural of semeno

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Malay semen, 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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈmɛn/
  • Rhymes: -mɛn, -ɛn, -n
  • Hyphenation: sê‧mèn

Noun

sêmèn (first-person possessive semenku, second-person possessive semenmu, third-person possessive semennya)

  1. cement (powdered substance)
  2. cement, the layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
Alternative forms
  • simen (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
Derived terms
  • bersemen
  • menyemen
  • penyemenan
  • semenan
  • tersemen

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛmɛn/
  • Rhymes: -mɛn, -ɛn, -n
  • Hyphenation: sè‧mèn

Noun

sèmèn (first-person possessive semenku, second-person possessive semenmu, third-person possessive semennya)

  1. (medicine) semen, the fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.
    Synonym: air mani
Alternative forms
  • sémen (Standard Malay)
  • seminar
  • seminari
  • seminaris

Further reading

  • “semen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.men/, [ˈs̠eːmɛn]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.men/, [ˈsɛːmen]

Noun

sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension

  1. seed (of plants)
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.221-222:
      ‘prīma per immēnsās sparsī nova sēmina gentēs!
      ūnīus tellūs ante colōris erat.’
      “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).)
    Semen manu spargere. ― To scatter seed by hand.
  2. semen
  3. graft
  4. offspring
  5. cause
  6. (poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))
    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6:
      et ignis sēmina convolvunt ē nūbibus.
      and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativesēmensēmina
Genitivesēminissēminum
Dativesēminīsēminibus
Accusativesēmensēmina
Ablativesēminesēminibus
Vocativesēmensēmina

Derived terms

  • sēmentifer
  • sēmentis
  • sēminālia
  • sēminālis
  • sēminārium
  • sēminārius
  • sēminātiō
  • sēminātor
  • sēminium
  • sēminiverbius
  • sēminō
  • sēminōsus

Descendants

  • → Catalan: semen
  • → English: semen
  • → Middle Irish: semen
    • Irish: seamhan
  • Galician: seme
  • Italian: seme
  • Romanian: sămânță
  • Portuguese: sêmen, sémen
  • Romansch: sem
  • → Spanish: semen, ⇒ semilla
  • Venetian: sema

References

  • “semen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “semen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • semen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the elements and first beginnings: elementa et tamquam semina rerum
    • to sow: serere; semen spargere

Maltese

Root
s-m-n
10 terms

Alternative forms

  • semel

Etymology

From Arabic سَمْن‎ (samn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.mɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmɛn

Noun

semen m

  1. butter
    Synonym: butir

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French chemin.

Noun

semen

  1. road, street

References

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • seme, semi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseːmən/

Verb

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

  1. (Early Middle English) To sort out; to resolve, subdue, or confirm.
Conjugation
Conjugation of semen (weak in -ed)
infinitive(to) semen, seme
present tensepast tense
1st-person singularsemesemed
2nd-person singularsemestsemedest
3rd-person singularsemethsemed
subjunctive singularseme
imperative singular—
plural1semen, semesemeden, semede
imperative pluralsemeth, seme—
participlessemynge, semendesemed, ysemed

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References
  • “sẹ̄men, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • cemyn, seeme, seemen, seme, semy, semyn

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseːmən/

Verb

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

  1. To seem (to be); to look or be perceived as.
    • 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
  2. To appear; to become visible or discernible.
  3. To believe or assume; to develop a belief:
    1. To deem or consider; to form a judgement.
    2. To consider to be appropriate; to judge as suitable.
  4. To be appropriate or right; to suit or befit.
  5. (rare) To exist; to be extant.
Conjugation
Conjugation of semen (weak in -ed)
infinitive(to) semen, seme
present tensepast tense
1st-person singularsemesemed
2nd-person singularsemestsemedest
3rd-person singularsemethsemed
subjunctive singularseme
imperative singular—
plural1semen, semesemeden, semede
imperative pluralsemeth, seme—
participlessemynge, semendesemed, ysemed

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

  • bisemen
  • seme
  • semly
Descendants
  • English: seem
  • Scots: seem
References
  • “sẹ̄men, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

  • seme

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseːmən/, /ˈsɛːmən/

Verb

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

  1. To load up or with; to place upon.
  2. (figuratively, rare) To be burdensome or grievous.
Conjugation
Conjugation of semen (weak in -ed/-de)
infinitive(to) semen, seme
present tensepast tense
1st-person singularsemesemed, semde
2nd-person singularsemestsemedest, semdest
3rd-person singularsemethsemed, semde
subjunctive singularseme
imperative singular—
plural1semen, semesemeden, semede, semden, semde
imperative pluralsemeth, seme—
participlessemynge, semendesemed, ysemed

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References
  • “sẹ̄men, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from semăna.

Noun

semen m (plural semeni)

  1. fellow human

Declension

Declension of semen
singularplural
indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(un) semensemenul(niște) semenisemenii
genitive/dative(unui) semensemenului(unor) semenisemenilor
vocativesemenulesemenilor

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French chemin.

Noun

semen

  1. road, street

References

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēmen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsemen/ [ˈse.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -emen
  • Syllabification: se‧men

Noun

semen m (uncountable)

  1. semen, sperm
    Mi amigo me preguntó si era saludable tragarse su propio semen.
    My friend asked me if it was healthy to swallow his own semen.
  • inseminar
  • semilla
  • seminal
  • seminoma

Further reading

  • “semen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

semen

  1. seed

Inflection

Inflection of semen (inflection type 22/homen)
nominative sing.semen
genitive sing.semnen
partitive sing.sement
partitive plur.semnid
singularplural
nominativesemensemned
accusativesemnensemned
genitivesemnensemniden
partitivesementsemnid
essive-instructivesemnensemnin
translativesemnekssemnikš
inessivesemnessemniš
elativesemnespäisemnišpäi
illativesemnehesemnihe
adessivesemnelsemnil
ablativesemnelpäisemnilpäi
allativesemnelesemnile
abessivesemnetasemnita
comitativesemnenkesemnidenke
prolativesementmesemnidme
approximative Isemnennosemnidenno
approximative IIsemnennokssemnidennoks
egressivesemnennopäisemnidennopäi
terminative Isemnehesaisemnihesai
terminative IIsemnelesaisemnilesai
terminative IIIsemnessai—
additive Isemnehepäisemnihepäi
additive IIsemnelepäisemnilepäi

Derived terms

  • semeta
  • semenjaugaine
  • semenvil'l'

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “семя”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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