seminalis

From sēmen (“seed”) +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seː.mɪˈnaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.miˈnaː.lis]

sēminālis (neuter sēmināle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) seed
   • Columella, De re rustica.

     Viciae seminalis modios quinque vel sex

     Five or six of seed-vetch

2. seminal
   • Augustine, Confessions.

     sed iam erat natura seminalis ex qua propagaremur

     But there already was the seminal nature from which we were to be generated.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• “seminalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• seminalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.