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seme
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)
- (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)
- Obsolete form of seem.
Etymology 3
Noun
seme (plural semes)
- Obsolete form of seam.
Etymology 4
Adjective
seme
- Obsolete form of semé.
Etymology 5
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (seme), derived from the verb ??? (semeru, “to attack”).
Noun
seme (plural semes or seme)
- (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
- first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of semar
Basque
Etymology
From Proto-Basque *senbe.
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /s?e.me/
Noun
seme anim
- 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)
- semen
Synonyms
- esperma, inzo
Hadza
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seme/
Verb
seme
- (intransitive) to eat
Noun
seme m
- 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)
- (botany) seed, pip
- (botany, in some cases) bean
- (anatomy, colloquial) semen
- Synonym: sperma
- (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
- 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 ?????)
- seed
- germ
- semen
- spawn
- milt
- offspring
- 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
- seed
Inflection
Further reading
- “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Venetian
Adjective
seme
- feminine plural of semo
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semantics
English
Etymology
From French sémantique, displacing earlier semasiology. From Ancient Greek ?????????? (s?mantikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??mænt?ks/
Noun
semantics (uncountable)
- (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. [1893]
- The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
- The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
- (computer science) The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of semantics
Further reading
- semantics at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- amnestics
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