seme

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːm/

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• Homophones: seam, seem
• Rhymes: -iːm

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, sign, or symbol.

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

1. Obsolete form of seem.

seme (plural semes)

1. Obsolete form of seam.

seme

1. Obsolete form of semé.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 150:

     I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

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

seme (plural semes or seme)

1. (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
   • 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre‎^[1], McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:

     […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek‎^[2], volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:

     Sebas has always been the seme.

   • 2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World‎^[3], Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:

     The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

• uke

• Mees, Esmé, Esme, smee, seem, mese, Smee, emes

seme

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

From Proto-Basque *senbe.

• IPA^(key): /s̺eme/ [s̺e.me]

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• Rhymes: -eme, -e
• Hyphenation: se‧me

seme anim

1. son

• “seme”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “seme”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Latin sēmen.

seme m (plural semes)

1. semen

   Synonyms: esperma, inzo

• IPA^(key): /seme/

seme

1. (intransitive) to eat

seme m

1. food

• same

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.me/
• Rhymes: -eme
• Hyphenation: sé‧me

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seme m (plural semi)

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

   Synonym: sperma

4. (card games) suit

• seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• mese

seme

1. Rōmaji transcription of せめ

Borrowed from Old Norse sœmr, from Proto-Germanic *sōmiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːm(ə)/

seme

1. Seemly, appropriate, honourable.
2. (rare) Attractive, beautiful.

• “sẹ̄me, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

seme

1. alternative form of seem (“seam”)

seme

1. alternative form of seem (“load”)

seme

1. alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)

seme

1. alternative form of semen (“to seem”)

seme

1. alternative form of semen (“to load up”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.me/

sēme

1. inflection of sēman:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• sjȅme (Ijekavian)
• śeme (Montenegro)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

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

sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• IPA^(key): /sèːmɛ/

sẹ́me n

1. seed

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• “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “seme”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈseme/ [ˈse.me]
• Rhymes: -eme
• Syllabification: se‧me

seme

1. inflection of ser:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with me
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me

seme

1. feminine plural of semo