seme

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

• IPA^(key): /siːm/
• Homophones: seam, seem
• Rhymes: -iːm

seme (plural semes or semata)

1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.

• semantics
• semiotics

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)

1. Obsolete form of seem.

seme

1. Obsolete form of seam.

seme

1. Obsolete form of semé.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

Borrowed from Japanese 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).

seme (plural semes or seme)

1. (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
   • 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre‎, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:

     […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek‎, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:

     Sebas has always been the seme.

   • 2011, Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World‎, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:

     The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

• uke

• Esme, Esmé, emes, mese, seem, smee

seme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̺e.me/

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seme

1. son

From Latin sēmen.

seme m (plural semes)

1. semen

• esperma, inzo

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• IPA^(key): [ˈseme]
• enPR: séme, IPA^(key): /ˈseme/

seme m (plural semi)

1. (botany) seed, pip
2. (botany, in some cases) bean
3. (anatomy, colloquial) semen

   Synonym: sperma

4. (card games) suit

• semaio
• sementa
• semente
• semenza
• semina
• seminare

• seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• mese

• (Ijekavian) sjȅme

From Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• IPA^(key): /sême/
• Hyphenation: se‧me

sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)

1. seed
2. germ
3. semen
4. spawn
5. milt
6. offspring
7. prime cause

From Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsèːmɛ/
• Tonal orthography: sẹ́me

séme n (genitive seména or sémena, nominative plural seména or sémena)

1. seed

seme

1. feminine plural of semo