seminalis

Latin

Etymology

From sēmen (“seed”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seː.miˈnaː.lis/, [s̠eːmɪˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.miˈna.lis/, [semiˈnäːlis]

Adjective

sēminālis (neuter sēmināle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) seed
   • Columella, De re rustica.

     Viciae seminalis modios quinque vel sex

     Five or six of seed-vetch

2. seminal
   • Augustine, Confessions.

     sed iam erat natura seminalis ex qua propagaremur

     But there already was the seminal nature from which we were to be generated.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sēminālis	sēmināle		sēminālēs	sēminālia
genitive	sēminālis			sēminālium
dative	sēminālī			sēminālibus
accusative	sēminālem	sēmināle		sēminālēs sēminālīs	sēminālia
ablative	sēminālī			sēminālibus
vocative	sēminālis	sēmināle		sēminālēs	sēminālia

Descendants

• Catalan: seminal
• → French: séminal
  • → Romanian: seminal
  • → Turkish: seminal
• Galician: seminal
• Italian: seminale
• Portuguese: seminal
• Sicilian: siminali
• Spanish: seminal

References

• “seminalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• seminalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.