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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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stem
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?m, IPA(key): /st?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- A branch of a family.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- (slang) The penis.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- Synonyms: tail, (obsolete) virgula
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly Britain) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stem” in the Collins English Dictionary
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
- (to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijan?. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- to stem a tide
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- Alternative form of steem
Etymology 4
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- Alternative form of STEM
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
- Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
Further reading
- stem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stem”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?m/
Etymology 1
From Dutch stem, from Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebn?, *stamnij?.
Noun
stem (plural stemme)
- vote
- voice
Etymology 2
From Dutch stemmen.
Verb
stem (present stem, present participle stemmende, past participle gestem)
- to vote
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebn?, *stamnij?. Under influence of Latin vox (“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?m/
- Hyphenation: stem
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
stem f (plural stemmen, diminutive stemmetje n)
- voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
- the ability to speak
- vote
- (obsolete) word
- (phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
Derived terms
- foertstem
- proteststem
Descendants
- Afrikaans: stem
- ? Indonesian: setem
- ? Sranan Tongo: sten
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present indicative of stemmen
- imperative of stemmen
Anagrams
- mest, mets
Latin
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of st?
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English stamp.
Noun
stem
- stamp
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