Latin edit

Etymology edit

From semen +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sēminium n (genitive sēminiī or sēminī); second declension

  1. breed, stock, race
  2. begetting, procreation

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēminium sēminia
Genitive sēminiī
sēminī1
sēminiōrum
Dative sēminiō sēminiīs
Accusative sēminium sēminia
Ablative sēminiō sēminiīs
Vocative sēminium sēminia

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

References edit

  • seminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • seminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • seminium 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)
  • seminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • seminium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • seminium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin