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English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
semis
- plural of semi
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin sēmis.
Pronunciation
Noun
semis (plural semises)
- (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.
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Esperanto
Verb
semis
- past of semi
French
Etymology
From semer + -is.
Pronunciation
Noun
semis m (plural semis)
- (agriculture) a technique for planting seeds on a terrain
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Latin
Etymology
From sēmi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension
- a half, a half-unit
- a coin worth half an as
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “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, 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)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sēmis.
Noun
semis m (plural semis)
- semis (a Roman coin worth half an as)
Noun
semis f pl
- plural of semi
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Swedish
Noun
semis
- indefinite genitive singular of semi
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