Latin Word of the Day
semen
seed
Definitions
| Latin > English |
| semen |
| 1. n. seed (of plants) |
| Semen manu spargere. - To scatter seed by hand. |
| 2. n. semen |
| 3. n. graft |
| 4. n. offspring |
| 5. n. cause |
| 6. n. (poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.)) |
Example Sentences
| Et ait Deus: “Germinet terra herbam virentem et herbam facientem semen et lignum pomiferum faciens fructum iuxta genus suum, cuius semen in semetipso sit super terram”. Et factum est ita. And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. Veni, inebriemus patrem nostrum vino dormiamusque cum eo, ut servare possimus ex patre nostro semen. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. |
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| pinus | sacculus | semen | novus |
| columbus | quinquaginta | soror | magnus |
| cena | quadraginta unus | stragulum | lambere |
| sexaginta unus | ramulus | nutare | septuaginta quinque |
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