semester

semester

See also: Semester

English

Alternative forms

• semestre (obsolete)

Etymology

From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈmɛstə/

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American) enPR: sĭ-mĕstʹər, IPA^(key): /sɪˈmɛstɚ/
• Hyphenation: se‧mes‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Noun

semester (plural semesters)

1. Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.

   I will graduate at the end of the spring semester.

2. A period or term of six months.

Translations

half of school year

Arabic: فَصْل دِرَاسِيّ‎ m (faṣl dirāsiyy), نِصْف سَنَة‎ m (niṣf sana), فَصْل أَكَادِيمِيّ‎ m (faṣl ʾakādīmiyy) Gulf Arabic: كورس‎ m (kors), سِمِسْتَر‎ (semestər) Armenian: կիսամյակ (hy) (kisamyak) Belarusian: семе́стр m (sjemjéstr), сэмэ́стар m (seméstar) Bulgarian: семестър (bg) m (semestǎr) Catalan: semestre m Chinese: Mandarin: 學期／学期 (zh) (xuéqī) Czech: semestr (cs) m, pololetí (cs) n, půlrok m Danish: semester (da) n Dutch: semester (nl) n Esperanto: semestro (eo) Finnish: lukukausi (fi) French: semestre (fr) m, trimestre (fr) m German: Semester (de) n, Halbjahr (de) n Greek: εξάμηνο (el) n (exámino) Hungarian: félév (hu), szemeszter (hu) Icelandic: misseri (is) n Indonesian: semester (id) Italian: semestre (it) m Japanese: 学期 (ja) (がっき, gakki) Khmer: ឆមាស (km) (chɑmiəh) Korean: 학기(學期) (ko) (hakgi), 반기 (ko) (ban'gi) Norwegian: Bokmål: semester n, termin (no) m Nynorsk: semester n, termin m Persian: نیمسال تحصیلی‎ (nimsâl-e tahsili), ترم‎ (fa) (term) Polish: semestr (pl) m, półrocze (pl) n Portuguese: semestre (pt) m Romanian: semestru (ro) n Russian: семе́стр (ru) m (seméstr), полуго́дие (ru) n (polugódije) Serbo-Croatian: polugodište (sh) n Spanish: semestre (es) m Swedish: termin (sv) c Tagalog: semestre, hatintaon Turkish: sömestir (tr), yarıyıl (tr) Ukrainian: семе́стр m (seméstr), піврі́ччя n (pivríččja) Vietnamese: học kỳ (vi) (學期), sáu tháng Yiddish: סעמעסטער‎ m (semester), זמן‎ (zman)

period or term of six months

Bulgarian: полугодие n (polugodie) Icelandic: misseri (is) n Indonesian: semester (id)

See also

• term
• trimester
• half-year

Anagrams

• semestre

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English semester.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: se‧mes‧ter
• IPA^(key): /semesˈteɾ/, [s̪ɪ.mɪs̪ˈt̪iɾ̪]

Noun

semester

1. semester (half of a school year or academic year)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:semester.

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Danish

Etymology

From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /semɛstər/, [seˈmɛsd̥ɐ]

Noun

semester n (singular definite semestret or semesteret, plural indefinite semestre)

1. semester (half of school year)

Declension

Declension of semester

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	semester	semestret semesteret	semestre	semestrene
genitive	semesters	semestrets semesterets	semestres	semestrenes

See also

• semester on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

References

• “semester” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch semester, from German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris ("lasting six months"), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [səˈmɛstər]
• Hyphenation: sê‧mès‧têr

Noun

sêmèstêr (first-person possessive semesterku, second-person possessive semestermu, third-person possessive semesternya)

1. semester:
   1. a period or term of six months.
   2. (education) half of a school year or academic year.

Derived terms

• semesteran

 

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Noun

semester

1. Alternative form of semestere

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin (cursus) semestris.

Noun

semester n (definite singular semesteret or semestret, indefinite plural semester or semestre, definite plural semestra or semestrene)

1. semester

References

• “semester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

From New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”); sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”). See also German Semester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈmɛstɛr/

  audio

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Noun

semester c

1. a holiday/vacation, especially from work

   Nästan alla här går på semester under sensommaren.

   Almost everyone here goes on vacation during late summer.

2. an activity related to vacationing, especially in compound terms

   Jag åkte på campingsemester med kollegerna.

   I went on a camping vacation with my colleagues.

3. (figuratively) a relief from a taxing situation

   Vi behöver ta semester från varandra.

   We need to take a break from each other.

Declension

Declension of semester
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	semester	semestern	semestrar	semestrarna
Genitive	semesters	semesterns	semestrars	semestrarnas

Related terms

• industrisemester
• semesteranläggning
• semesterby
• semesterdag
• semesterersättning
• semesterfirare
• semesterförmån
• semesterhem
• semesterhälsning
• semesterlag
• semesterledig
• semesterlön
• semesterminne
• semestermål
• semestermånad
• semesterort
• semesterparadis
• semesterpenning
• semesterperiod
• semesterresa
• semesterställe
• semesterstängd
• semesterstängning
• semestertid
• semestertillägg
• semestertripp
• semestervecka
• semestervikariat
• semestervikarie
• semestervistelse
• semesterö
• semestra
• solsemester
• sommarsemester
• vintersemester

 

References

• semester in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)