sperma

sperma (plural spermata)

1. Obsolete form of sperm.
   • 1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:

     The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.

• ampers, prames, remaps

Borrowed from Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈspɛrma]

sperma n

1. sperm, semen

   Synonym: semeno

• “sperma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sperma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sperma”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛrmaː/

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sperma n (uncountable)

1. (biology) sperm, semen (fluid animal seed)

• zaad

• spermabank
• spermadonor
• spermatozoïde

From German Sperma.

sperma (genitive sperma, partitive spermat)

1. sperm

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• seeme
• seemnevedelik

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”), possibly through Latin sperma or German Sperma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspermɑ/, [ˈs̠pe̞rmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ermɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sper‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): sper‧ma

sperma

1. semen, sperm

• siemenneste

• “sperma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Late Latin sperma.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈspɛrma/ [ˈspɛr.ma]
• Rhymes: -ɛrma
• Syllabification: sper‧ma

sperma (plural sperma-sperma)

1. sperm

   Synonym: mani

• “sperma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛr.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛrma
• Hyphenation: spèr‧ma

sperma m (plural spermi)

1. sperm

• sperma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• sprema

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”).

sperma n (genitive spermatis); third declension

1. seed, semen, sperm

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• Catalan: esperma
• Old French: sperme
  • Middle French: sperme
    • → English: sperm
    • French: sperme
• → German: Sperma
  • → Estonian: sperma

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

From Latin sperma, from Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”).

sperma f (4th declension)

1. sperm, semen (generative substance of male animals)

• sēkla

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲpʲɛɾmɐ]

spèrma f (plural spèrmos) stress pattern 1

1. sperm, semen

• sėkla

• spermatozoidas

• ejakuliacija
• ejakuliatas
• ejakuliuoti
• prejakuliatas

Borrowed from Italian sperma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛr.ma/

sperma f

1. semen, sperm

   Synonyms: liba, żerriegħa

From Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”).

sperma n (definite singular spermaet, uncountable)

1. sperm, semen

• sperm
• sæd

• sperme

• spermie

sperma

1. inflection of sperme:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• “sperma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”).

sperma n (definite singular spermaet, uncountable)

1. sperm, semen

• sæd

• spermie

• “sperma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛr.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrma
• Syllabification: sper‧ma

sperma f

1. semen

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsperma]

sperma

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of spermă

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): /spěrma/

spèrma f (Cyrillic spelling спѐрма)

1. sperm

From Late Latin sperma.

• IPA^(key): /spɛ́ːrma/

spȇrma f

1. sperm, semen

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Feminine, a-stem
nominative	spêrma
genitive	spêrme
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	spêrma
genitive (rodȋlnik)	spêrme
dative (dajȃlnik)	spêrmi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	spêrmo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	spêrmi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	spêrmo

• “sperma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

sperma c

1. semen

   Synonyms: säd, sädesvätska, (slang) sarre, (slang) sagge

• spermabank

• spermie (“sperm cell”)
• sats (“load”)

• sperma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sperma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sperma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken