seminarium

Borrowed from Latin sēminārium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌseː.miˈnaː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: se‧mi‧na‧ri‧um
• Rhymes: -aːriʏm

seminarium n (plural seminaria)

1. a seminary

   Synonym: seminarie

From sēmen (“seed”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”), that is, a place for sowing the seeds of knowledge.

sēminārium n (genitive sēmināriī or sēminārī); second declension

1. seminary
2. breeding ground
3. plant nursery; arboretum
4. nursery or daycare for children

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “seminarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seminarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "seminarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• seminarium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin sēminārium.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.miˈna.rjum/

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• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: se‧mi‧na‧rium

seminarium n

1. (Roman Catholicism) seminary (theological school)
2. seminar (class held for advanced studies)

   Synonym: konwersatorium

• seminarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• seminarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• seminarie (nonstandard)

From Latin seminarium, used in Swedish since 1638.

seminarium n

1. a seminar, a lecture, a presentation; a situation for teaching and discussion
2. a seminary, a school for priests and/or teachers

Since compounds are made with seminarie-, it is a common mistake (but still an error) to assume this is the basic form (ett seminarie).

• seminarium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• seminarium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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