semen

From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːmən/

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• Rhymes: -iːmən
• Homophones: seaman, seamen

semen (uncountable)

1. A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 68

     Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.

• (Male reproductory fluid): ejaculate, sperm; (slang): jissom, jism, jizz, spunk, cum, seed, spurt, spooge, splooge, load, skeet
• See also Thesaurus:semen

• semenlike
• semenologist
• semeny

• mense, mesen, mesne, neems

semen

1. third-person plural present indicative of semar
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of semar

From English cement.

semen (plural semen-semen, first-person possessive semenku, second-person possessive semenmu, third-person possessive semennya)

1. cement (a powdered substance)

From English semen.

semen (plural semen-semen, first-person possessive semenku, second-person possessive semenmu, third-person possessive semennya)

1. The fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.

From Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.men/, [ˈseː.mɛn]

sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension

1. seed (of plants)

   Semen manu spargere. ― To scatter seed by hand.

2. semen
3. graft
4. offspring
5. cause
6. (poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6:

     et ignis semina convolvunt e nubibus.

     and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

Third declension neuter.

• semen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• semen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the elements and first beginnings: elementa et tamquam semina rerum
    
  • to sow: serere; semen spargere
    

From French chemin

semen

1. road, street

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

semen

1. to seem
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

From French chemin

semen

1. road, street

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Borrowed from Latin sēmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.men/

semen m (uncountable)

1. semen, sperm

• semilla
• inseminar

From Proto-Finnic *seemen, from a Baltic language, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

semen

1. seed

• semeta
• semenjaugaine
• semenvil'l'

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “семя”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika