sementium

Latin

Etymology 1

Noun

sēmentium

genitive plural of sēmentis

Etymology 2

Neuter form based on etymology 1. The singular sementium is first attested in the Vetus Itala. The plural sementia is attested in Pseudo-Augustine (late 6th. c.) and in a document dating from 820 CE.

Noun

sementium n (genitive sementiī or sementī); second declension (Late Latin)

(nonstandard) seed

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sementium	sementia
Genitive	sementiī sementī¹	sementiōrum
Dative	sementiō	sementiīs
Accusative	sementium	sementia
Ablative	sementiō	sementiīs
Vocative	sementium	sementia

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

Descendants

All reflect the plural sementia, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: simintsã
- Megleno-Romanian: siminţă
- Romanian: sămânță
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: semenza
- Sicilian: simenza
Padanian:
- Emilian: scmenza
- Friulian: semence, samence
- Old Ligurian: somenza
  - Ligurian: sümensa
- Lombard: sminza, somenza
- Piedmontese: smens m
- Venetian: semensa, samenzha, simensa
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: semênce, semensa
- Old French: semance, semence, semenche, somence
  - Champenois: smas, soumace
  - French: semence ⇒ ensemencer (verb)
  - Lorrain: smas, semance, s'moce, smos, semauce
  - Norman: sumenche, seumanche, sumence, semenche ⇒ s'menchi (verb)
  - Picard: séminche, chéminche
  - Walloon: simince, sumince
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: semença
- Occitan: semença
Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: simienza (obsolete) ⇒ semencera

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĕmĕntia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 430