semi

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The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmi
• Hyphenation: semi

semi (plural semis)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
   • 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,

     I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.

   • 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52:

     The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.

   • 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 150:

     The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
   • 1967, Tommy Faile (lyrics and music), “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:

     I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill

   • 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Australia: Allen & Unwin, unnumbered page:

     All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.

3. (informal) A semifinal.
4. (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
   • 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys, page 158:

     The twink got a semi just from that look.

5. (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
   • 2023 April 28, “Got Dat Muneh” (track 10, 0:48 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), GHOST‎:

     See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my semi
     […]
     For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted
     Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin'
     Ain't no kiddin', got that semi

• EMIs, ESMI, IMEs, MSIE, Meis, Sime, eSIM, mise

From semo +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -emi
• Hyphenation: se‧mi

semi (present semas, past semis, future semos, conditional semus, volitive semu)

1. (intransitive) to sow

Conjugation of semi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		semas		semis		semos
active participle		semanta	semantaj	seminta	semintaj	semonta	semontaj
	acc.	semantan	semantajn	semintan	semintajn	semontan	semontajn
passive participle		semata	semataj	semita	semitaj	semota	semotaj
	acc.	sematan	sematajn	semitan	semitajn	semotan	semotajn
nominal active participle		semanto	semantoj	seminto	semintoj	semonto	semontoj
	acc.	semanton	semantojn	seminton	semintojn	semonton	semontojn
nominal passive participle		semato	sematoj	semito	semitoj	semoto	semotoj
	acc.	sematon	sematojn	semiton	semitojn	semoton	semotojn
adverbial active participle		semante		seminte		semonte
adverbial passive participle		semate		semite		semote

infinitive		semi						imperative		semu						conditional		semus

• dissemi (“scatter; disseminate”)

See semi-. Sense "semi-erection" a semantic loan from English semi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsemi/,
• Rhymes: -emi
• Hyphenation^(key): se‧mi

semi (comparative semimpi, superlative semein) (predicative only, colloquial)

1. mid, mediocre, not bad, not good

   No se esitys oli aika semi. ― Well, the show was just okay

semi (not comparable) (attributive only, colloquial)

1. sort of, kind of, pretty

   Synonyms: aika, jokseenkin, melko

   semi ookoo ― pretty okay

   semi paska ― kind of shit

semi (colloquial)

1. partial tumescence, semi-erection

   Synonym: puolierektio

• “semi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From Malay semi (“shoot, sprout”).

• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦼꦩꦶ (semi, “sprouting”).

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• Hyphenation: sê‧mi

sêmi

1. shoot, sprout

   Synonyms: taruk, tunas

2. (dialect) sprouting

• “semi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

semi m

1. plural of seme

• mesi, mise

semi

1. Rōmaji transcription of せみ
2. Rōmaji transcription of セミ

semi

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

semi

1. third-person active present subjunctive of semja

semi

1. first-person singular present/imperative active of seti (“to sleep”)

Clipping of semifinal.

semi f (plural semis)

1. (colloquial) semifinal, semi-final

   Synonym: semifinal

   • 2022 March 19, Alberto Rubio, “El Chelsea se mete en semis de FA Cup y manda un 'aviso' al Real Madrid”, in Marca‎:
   • 2022 March 16, Aimara G. Gil, “El Barcelona sigue intratable y se mete en semis con otra goleada”, in As‎:
   • 2021 August 19, Lautaro Tiburzio, “No habrá cuarteto de brasileños en semis: Barcelona eliminó a Fluminense”, in Bolavip‎, archived from the original on 29 August 2021:

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semi

1. plural of usemi

semi c

1. Clipping of semifinal.

semi

1. masculine plural of semo