germinal

germinal (comparative more germinal, superlative most germinal)

1. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
2. (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.

   My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.

3. (figuratively) Highly influential, seminal.

In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male seminal (germ (“egg”) vs. semen).

• (relating to seed): seminal
• (influential): seminal

• germinal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• germinal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• maligner, malinger

germinal (masculine and feminine plural germinals)

1. germinal

germinal m (plural germinals)

1. (historical) Germinal (the month).

Taken from Latin germen, germinis (“sprout, bud”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.mi.nal/
• Rhymes: -al

germinal (feminine singular germinale, masculine plural germinaux, feminine plural germinales)

1. germinal

germinal m (plural germinals)

1. (historical) Germinal (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)

• (French Republican Calendar months) mois du calendrier républicain; vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire, nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse, germinal, floréal, prairial, messidor, thermidor, fructidor ^{(Category: fr:Months)}

• “germinal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• malingre

germinal (plural germinales)

1. germinal

germinal m (plural germinales)

1. Germinal