sementis

Latin

Etymology

From sēmen.

Pronunciation

Noun

sēmentis f (genitive sēmentis); third declension

  1. sowing, planting (action or season)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or ).

singular plural
nominative sēmentis sēmentēs
genitive sēmentis sēmentium
dative sēmentī sēmentibus
accusative sēmentem
sēmentim
sēmentēs
sēmentīs
ablative sēmente
sēmentī
sēmentibus
vocative sēmentis sēmentēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: semente, sementa
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: semen
      • Occitan: semen (Auvergne, Languedoc, Gascony)
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

Further reading

  • sementis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sementis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sementis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to look after the sowing: sementem facere (B. G. 1. 3. 1)
    • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)