semis
English edit
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semis
Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
semis (plural semises)
- (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.
Translations edit
small bronze coin
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Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
semis
- past of semi
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
semis m (plural semis)
- (agriculture) a technique for planting seeds on a terrain
Further reading edit
- “semis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
20[a], [b], [c], [d], [e] | ||
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3 → |
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Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus, alter Adverbial: bis Multiplier: duplex, duplus Distributive: bīnus Collective: bīniō Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis |
Etymology edit
From sēmi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈseː.mis/, [ˈs̠eːmɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.mis/, [ˈsɛːmis]
Noun edit
sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | sēmis | sēmissēs |
Genitive | sēmissis | sēmissum |
Dative | sēmissī | sēmissibus |
Accusative | sēmissem | sēmissēs |
Ablative | sēmisse | sēmissibus |
Vocative | sēmis | sēmissēs |
Descendants edit
- Spanish: jeme
References edit
- “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)
- 6 per cent (i.e. if for 100 denarii, asses, one pays half a denarius, half an as per month): semisses
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
semis m (plural semis)
Noun edit
semis f pl
Further reading edit
- “semis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
semis
Anagrams edit
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