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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsɛmiːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]semis
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsɛmɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛmɪs
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] | ||
← 1 | II 2 |
3 → |
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Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus, alter Adverbial: bis Proportional: duplus Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex 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.
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]semis
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