seme
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
seme (plural semes)
Etymology 4 edit
Adjective edit
seme
- Obsolete form of semé.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 150:
- I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.
Etymology 5 edit
Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).
Noun edit
seme (plural semes or seme)
- (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
- 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre[1], McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:
- […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]
- 2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World[3], Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:
- The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
Antonyms edit
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
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seme
Basque edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Basque *senbe.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seme anim
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | seme | semea | semeak |
ergative | semek | semeak | semeek |
dative | semeri | semeari | semeei |
genitive | semeren | semearen | semeen |
comitative | semerekin | semearekin | semeekin |
causative | semerengatik | semearengatik | semeengatik |
benefactive | semerentzat | semearentzat | semeentzat |
instrumental | semez | semeaz | semeez |
inessive | semerengan | semearengan | semeengan |
locative | — | — | — |
allative | semerengana | semearengana | semeengana |
terminative | semerenganaino | semearenganaino | semeenganaino |
directive | semerenganantz | semearenganantz | semeenganantz |
destinative | semerenganako | semearenganako | semeenganako |
ablative | semerengandik | semearengandik | semeengandik |
partitive | semerik | — | — |
prolative | semetzat | — | — |
Derived terms edit
- seme besoetako (“godson”)
- seme galdu
- seme gehien
- seme nagusi
- seme ponteko (“godson”)
- seme premu
- seme zaharren
- seme-alaba (“children”)
- seme-alabaorde
- seme-alabatasun
- seme-alabatzako
- semebitxi (“godson”)
- semeizun (“stepson”)
- semeorde (“stepson”)
- semetasun
- semetxo
- semetzako
- semezko
Further reading edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
seme m (plural semes)
Hadza edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
seme
- (intransitive) to eat
Noun edit
seme m
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seme m (plural semi)
- (botany) seed, pip
- (botany, in some cases) bean
- (anatomy, colloquial) semen
- Synonym: sperma
- (card games) suit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
seme
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old Norse sœmr, from Proto-Germanic *sōmiz.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
seme
References edit
- “sẹ̄me, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
seme
- Alternative form of seem (“seam”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
seme
- Alternative form of seem (“load”)
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
seme
- Alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)
Etymology 5 edit
Verb edit
seme
- Alternative form of semen (“to seem”)
Etymology 6 edit
Verb edit
seme
- Alternative form of semen (“to load up”)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
- sjȅme (Ijekavian)
- śeme (Montenegro)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)
Declension edit
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sẹ́me n
Inflection edit
Declension of seme (neuter, n-stem) | |||
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nom. sing. | seme | ||
gen. sing. | semena | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | seme | semeni | semena |
accusative | seme | semeni | semena |
genitive | semena | semen | semen |
dative | semenu | semenoma | semenom |
locative | semenu | semenih | semenih |
instrumental | semenom | semenoma | semeni |
Further reading edit
- “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “seme”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
seme
- inflection of ser:
- second-person singular imperative combined with me
- second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me
Venetian edit
Adjective edit
seme