semita

See also: sémita

English

Etymology

Latin semita (“a path”).

Noun

semita (plural semitae)

  1. A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for semita in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

semita (feminine singular semita, masculine plural semiti, feminine plural semite)

  1. Semitic

Synonyms

Noun

semita m (plural semiti)

  1. Semite

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé(d) (“by oneself; away, without”) +‎ *(h₂)mey- (“change, exchange”) +‎ *-téh₂. For *swé(d), compare sē-, sē, sed. For *(h₂)mey-, compare meō.[1][2] The LIV disagrees with De Vaans' reconstruction of *h₂mey- but prefers *mey-,[3] though Beekes agrees with De Vaan.[4] Compare trāmes.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.mi.ta/, [ˈseː.mɪ.ta]

Noun

sēmita f (genitive sēmitae); first declension

  1. narrow way, footpath

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēmita sēmitae
Genitive sēmitae sēmitārum
Dative sēmitae sēmitīs
Accusative sēmitam sēmitās
Ablative sēmitā sēmitīs
Vocative sēmita sēmitae

Derived terms
  • sēmita convīcīnālis
  • sēmitālis
  • sēmitārius
  • sēmitātim
  • sēmitātrīcēs deae
  • sēmitātus
  • sēmitō

Descendants
Descendants of sēmita in other languages
  • → Aramaic: סֵימִטָא‎ (sēmiṭā)
    • → Arabic: سَمْت‎ (samt)
      • → Azerbaijani: səmt
      • → English: azimuth, zenith
      • Kurdish:
        • → Northern Kurdish: semt
      • → Ottoman Turkish: سمت‎ (semt)
        • Turkish: semt
        • → Armenian: սամթ (samtʿ), սա̈մթ (sämtʿ), սեմթ (semtʿ)
      • → Persian: سمت‎ (samt)
        • Tajik: самт (samt)
  • Catalan: senda
  • → English: semita
  • French: sente
  • Old Portuguese: senda
  • Romansch: senda
  • Spanish: senda

References
  • sēmĭta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • semita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sēmĭta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,420/3
  • “sēmita” on page 1,732/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • “sēmita” on page 1,909/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “meō, meāre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 373-374
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sē-, se-, sō-, so-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 549-550
  3. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 426
  4. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀμείβω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 85-86

Portuguese

Noun

semita m, f (plural semitas)

  1. Semite (member of the Semites, an ethnic group of the Middle East)

Adjective

semita m or f (plural semitas, comparable)

  1. Semitic (relating to the Semites)
  2. (linguistics) Semitic (relating to the Semitic language family)

Synonyms

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • Homophone: cemita (Americas)

Adjective

semita (plural semitas)

  1. Semitic

Noun

semita m or f (plural semitas)

  1. Semite
  2. (Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, feminine only) a kind of biscuit
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