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fem
English
Etymology
Clipping of feminine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
fem (plural fems)
- (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge (?ISBN)
- Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
- "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."
- 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge (?ISBN):
- [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
Adjective
fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)
- (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
- Antonym: masc
- (LGBT) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang (?ISBN), page 79:
- Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]
Anagrams
- EFM, EMF, MEF, emf
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Latin fimum.
Noun
fem m (plural fems)
- dung
- (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)
Related terms
- femar
- femta
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
fem
- first-person plural present indicative form of fer
- first-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
- first-person plural imperative form of fer
Further reading
- “fem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fem” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “fem” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fem” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e (“five”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?m?]
Numeral
fem
- five
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.
Numeral
fem
- five
French
Etymology
English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Noun
fem f (plural fems)
- a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
- 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:
- Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.
- 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”)
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
- femdel
- femkamp
- femkant
- tjuefem
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun) fim
- (Puter, Vallader) füm
Etymology
From Latin f?mus.
Noun
fem m
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Numeral
fem
- five
Coordinate terms
Related terms
See also
- noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv
References
- fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English fermentation.
Noun
fem (nominative plural fems)
- fermentation
Declension
fem From the web:
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- what female has the most grammys
- what fema stands for
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- what female marvel character are you
- what female anime character are you
sem
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?m/
Noun
sem (plural sems)
- Clipping of seminary.
- Clipping of semester.
- Clipping of semicolon.
Anagrams
- EMS, EMs, Ems, MES, MEs, MSE, SME, ems, mes, mes-
Bahnar
Etymology
From Proto-Bahnaric *ce??m, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m/
Noun
sem
- bird
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?m/
Pronunciation
Adverb
sem
- hither (to here)
Eskayan
Numeral
sem
- nine
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- se
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???m]
- Rhymes: -?m
Conjunction
sem (clitic)
- …, neither (or not…, either)
- not even
Conjunction
sem (paired)
- neither… nor…
Usage notes
The word sem and nincs, nincsen (“it/there isn't”) are contracted into the forms sincs, sincsen (“it/there isn't, either”).
Derived terms
- semleges
See also
- koránt (used in the phrases korántsem, koránt sincs)
Further reading
- sem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m/
- Rhymes: -??m
- (before words beginning with a consonant) IPA(key): /s?m/
Conjunction
sem
- (with a noun phrase) as, like
- (with a clause) like, as if
- (relative, with a clause) who, which, that
Synonyms
- (as, like, as if): eins og
- (which, that): er
Derived terms
Verb
sem (weak)
- first-person singular present indicative of semja
- second-person singular imperative of semja
Old Norse
Etymology 1
Possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
Alternative forms
- som, sum (late Old Norse)
Conjunction
sem
- as, the same, like
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
sem
- inflection of semja:
- first-person singular active present indicative
- second-person singular active imperative
References
- sem in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?m/
Verb
sem
- to exit; to leave; to get out
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese sen, from Latin sine, from Proto-Indo-European *sene.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sem
- Homophone: cem
Preposition
sem
- -less; without (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.)
- (followed by infinitive) without (not doing or not having done something)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sem.
Synonyms
- (not having): desprovido de, falto de
Antonyms
- (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.): com
- (not doing or having done something): use gerund (-ando, -endo, -indo)
Derived terms
- sem mais nem menos
- sem que
Romani
Verb
sem
- first-person singular present indicative of si
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m/
Adverb
sem
- hither, over here (to here)
Verb
s??m
- first-person singular present of bíti
Further reading
- “sem”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English same
Adjective
sem
- same
Westrobothnian
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Conjunction
sem
- (with a noun phrase) as, like
- (with a clause) like, as if
- (relative, with a clause) who, which, that
Alternative forms
- s?m
- söm
- som
- so
Etymology 2
From sema (“to swim”).
Pronunciation
- (Hössjö, Bygdeå) IPA(key): /se?m/
- (Burträsk) IPA(key): /sem?/
- Rhymes: -em
Adjective
sem
- able to swim
Alternative forms
- sam
Noun
sem m (definite singular semen)
- way of swimming
Alternative forms
- svem
Derived terms
- tåsksem
Verb
sem
- singular present indicative of sema
- singular present imperative of sema
Zou
Noun
sem
- hair
References
- http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf
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