seminium

Latin

Etymology

From semen +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ni.um/, [s̠ɛˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ni.um/, [seˈmiːnium]

Noun

sēminium n (genitive sēminiī or sēminī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• “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