seme

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See also: semé, sémě, sème, śeme, and şeme

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

Pronunciation

Noun

seme (plural semes or semata)

  1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
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Etymology 2

Verb

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)

  1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme (plural semes)

  1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

  1. Obsolete form of semé.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).

Noun

seme (plural semes or seme)

  1. (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
    • 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre‎, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:
      […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]
    • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek‎, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:
      Sebas has always been the seme.
    • 2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World‎, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:
      The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
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Asturian

Verb

seme

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *senbe.

Pronunciation

Noun

seme anim

  1. son

Declension

Declension of seme (animate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive seme semea semeak
ergative semek semeak semeek
dative semeri semeari semeei
genitive semeren semearen semeen
comitative semerekin semearekin semeekin
causative semerengatik semearengatik semeengatik
benefactive semerentzat semearentzat semeentzat
instrumental semez semeaz semeez
inessive semerengan semearengan semeengan
locative — — —
allative semerengana semearengana semeengana
terminative semerenganaino semearenganaino semeenganaino
directive semerenganantz semearenganantz semeenganantz
destinative semerenganako semearenganako semeenganako
ablative semerengandik semearengandik semeengandik
partitive semerik — —
prolative semetzat — —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • "seme" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “seme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Etymology

From Latin sēmen.

Noun

seme m (plural semes)

  1. semen
    Synonyms: esperma, inzo

Hadza

Pronunciation

Verb

seme

  1. (intransitive) to eat

Noun

seme m

  1. food

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Pronunciation

Noun

seme m (plural semi)

  1. (botany) seed, pip
  2. (botany, in some cases) bean
  3. (anatomy, colloquial) semen
    Synonym: sperma
  4. (card games) suit

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Further reading

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

seme

  1. Rōmaji transcription of せめ

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse sœmr, from Proto-Germanic *sōmiz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

seme

  1. Seemly, appropriate, honourable.
  2. (rare) Attractive, beautiful.
References

Etymology 2

Noun

seme

  1. Alternative form of seem (“seam”)

Etymology 3

Noun

seme

  1. Alternative form of seem (“load”)

Etymology 4

Verb

seme

  1. Alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)

Etymology 5

Verb

seme

  1. Alternative form of semen (“to seem”)

Etymology 6

Verb

seme

  1. Alternative form of semen (“to load up”)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sême/
  • Hyphenation: se‧me

Noun

sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)

  1. seed
  2. germ
  3. semen
  4. spawn
  5. milt
  6. offspring
  7. prime cause

Declension

Declension of seme
singular plural
nominative sȅme semena
genitive sȅmena semena
dative semenu semenima
accusative seme semena
vocative seme semena
locative semenu semenima
instrumental semenom semenima

Slovene

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Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Pronunciation

Noun

sẹ́me n

  1. seed

Inflection

Declension of seme (neuter, n-stem)
nom. sing. seme
gen. sing. semena
singular dual plural
nominative seme semeni semena
accusative seme semeni semena
genitive semena semen semen
dative semenu semenoma semenom
locative semenu semenih semenih
instrumental semenom semenoma semeni

Further reading

  • “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “seme”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseme/
  • Rhymes: -eme
  • Syllabification: se‧me

Verb

seme

  1. inflection of ser:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with me
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me

Venetian

Adjective

seme

  1. feminine plural of semo
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