different between semes vs semis

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?mz/
• Homophones: seams, seems

Noun

semes

1. plural of seme

Etymology 2

Verb

semes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of seme

Anagrams

• Meess, meess, seems, smees

Asturian

Verb

semes

1. second-person singular present indicative of semar
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of semar

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mi?z/

Noun

semis

1. plural of semi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin s?mis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?s/

Noun

semis (plural semises)

1. (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.

Translations

Anagrams

• Messi, Simes, mises, seism

Esperanto

Verb

semis

1. past of semi

French

Etymology

From semer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.mi/

Noun

semis m (plural semis)

1. (agriculture) A technique for planting seeds on a terrain.

Further reading

• “semis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mises, misse

Latin

Etymology

From s?mi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se?.mis/, [?s?e?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.mis/, [?s??mis]

Noun

s?mis m (genitive s?missis); third declension

1. a half, a half-unit
2. a coin worth half an ?s

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• semis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• semis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin s?mis.

Noun

semis m (plural semis)

1. semis (a Roman coin worth half an as)

Swedish

Noun

semis

1. indefinite genitive singular of semi

Anagrams

• misse