semis

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmiːz/

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semis

1. plural of semi

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmɪs

semis (plural semises)

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

• Simes, Mises, Messi, seism, eSIMs, mises

semis

1. past of semi

From semer +‎ -is.

• IPA^(key): /sə.mi/

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semis m (plural semis)

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

• “semis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mises, misse

From sēmi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.mis]

sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension

1. a half, a half-unit
2. a coin worth half an as

Third-declension noun.

• Spanish: jeme
• ⇒ Late Latin: semus
  • >? Italian: scemo (partly?)
  • >? Sardinian: semu
  • >? Sicilian: scemu
  • >? Venetan: semo
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exsēmāre
  • Italian: scemare, ⇒ scemo (partly?)
  • >? Sicilian: scimuniri

• “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.
  • 6 per cent (i.e. if for 100 denarii, asses, one pays half a denarius, half an as per month): semisses
    
  • money is plentiful at 6 per cent: semissibus magna copia est
    
  • 6 per cent: usurae semisses (Jurists)
    

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

semis m (plural semis)

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

semis f pl

1. plural of semi

• “semis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

semis

1. indefinite genitive singular of semi

• misse