semestris

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Latin

Etymology

From sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”), cf. also mēnstruus (“monthly”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sēmēstris (neuter sēmēstre); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Alternative form of sēmēnstris

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative sēmēstris sēmēstre sēmēstrēs sēmēstria
genitive sēmēstris sēmēstrium
dative sēmēstrī sēmēstribus
accusative sēmēstrem sēmēstre sēmēstrēs
sēmēstrīs 		sēmēstria
ablative sēmēstrī sēmēstribus
vocative sēmēstris sēmēstre sēmēstrēs sēmēstria

Descendants

  • English: semestral, semester

References

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