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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (sêma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?m/
• Homophones: seam, seem
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

seme (plural semes or semata)

1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.

Related terms

• semantics
• semiotics

Etymology 2

Verb

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)

1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme (plural semes)

1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

1. Obsolete form of semé.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (seme), derived from the verb ??? (semeru, “to attack”).

Noun

seme (plural semes or seme)

1. (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.

Antonyms

• uke

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, mese, seem, smee

Asturian

Verb

seme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *senbe.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /s?e.me/

Noun

seme anim

1. son

Declension

Further reading

• “seme” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “seme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Etymology

From Latin s?men.

Noun

seme m (plural semes)

1. semen

Synonyms

• esperma, inzo

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seme/

Verb

seme

1. (intransitive) to eat

Noun

seme m

1. food

Related terms

• same

Italian

Etymology

From Latin s?men, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.me/
• enPR: séme, IPA^(key): /?se.me/

Noun

seme m (plural semi)

1. (botany) seed, pip
2. (botany, in some cases) bean
3. (anatomy, colloquial) semen

   Synonym: sperma

4. (card games) suit

Related terms

• semaio
• sementa
• semente
• semenza
• semina
• seminare

Further reading

• seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• mese

Japanese

Romanization

seme

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) sj?me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?m?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sême/
• Hyphenation: se?me

Noun

s?me n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. seed
2. germ
3. semen
4. spawn
5. milt
6. offspring
7. prime cause

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?m?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sè?m?/

Noun

s??me n

1. seed

Inflection

Further reading

• “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Venetian

Adjective

seme

1. feminine plural of semo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sémantique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??mænt?k/
• Rhymes: -ænt?k

Adjective

semantic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words. [from late 19th c.]
2. (software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
3. (slang, of a detail or distinction) Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.

Antonyms

• antisemantic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Semantic Web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “semantic”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “semantic” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "semantic" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• "Semantic code: What? Why? How?" in boagworld.
• semantic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Noun

semantic (plural semantics)

1. (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.

Translations

Anagrams

• amnestic, ancestim, nematics

Romanian

Etymology

From French sémantique.

Adjective

semantic m or n (feminine singular semantic?, masculine plural semantici, feminine and neuter plural semantice)

1. semantic

Declension