sementis

Latin

Etymology

From sēmen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈmen.tis/, [s̠ɛˈmɛn̪t̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈmen.tis/, [seˈmɛn̪t̪is]

Noun

sēmentis f (genitive sēmentis); third declension

1. sowing, planting (action or season)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	sēmentis	sēmentēs
genitive	sēmentis	sēmentium
dative	sēmentī	sēmentibus
accusative	sēmentem sēmentim	sēmentēs sēmentīs
ablative	sēmente sēmentī	sēmentibus
vocative	sēmentis	sēmentēs

Derived terms

• sementium
• sēmentivus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: semente, sementa
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: semen, chemen
  • Oïl:
    • Bourguignon: s'man, semant, somant, sement
    • Franc-Comtois: chemen
    • Middle French: semant
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: semen
    • Occitan: semen (Auvergne, Languedoc, Gascony)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: semiente
  • Galician: semente
  • Portuguese: semente
  • Spanish: semiente, simiente ⇒ sementera

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sementis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 432

Further reading

• “sementis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sementis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sementis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to look after the sowing: sementem facere (B. G. 1. 3. 1)
    
  • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)