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Latin
Etymology
From semen + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
sēminium n (genitive sēminiī or sēminī); second declension
- breed, stock, race
- begetting, procreation
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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