seme

See also sème, and semé

English

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Related terms

• semantics
• semiotics

Etymology 2

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme

1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

1. Obsolete form of semée.

Etymology 5

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

Noun

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 Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, 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 9780316221801, unnumbered page:

     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 Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:

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

Antonyms

• uke

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé
• seem
• smee

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈs̺e.me/

Noun

seme

1. son

Declension

"seme" (animate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive seme semea semeak ergative semek semeak semeek dative semeri semeari semeei genitive semeren semearen semeen comitative semerekin semearekin semeekin causative semerengatik semearengatik semeengatik benefactive semerentzat semearentzat semeentzat instrumental semez semeaz semeez inessive semerengan semearengan semeengan allative semerengana semearengana semeengana terminative semerenganaino semearenganaino semeenganaino directive semerenganantz semearenganantz semeenganantz destinative semerenganako semearenganako semeenganako ablative semerengandik semearengandik semeengandik partitive semerik - - prolative semetzat - -

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Italian

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Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈseme]
• enPR: séme, IPA: /ˈseme/, X-SAMPA: /"seme/

Etymology

From Latin semen.

Noun

seme m (plural semi)

1. seed
2. pip
3. bean (in some cases)

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• mese

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sjȅme

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sême/
• Hyphenation: se‧me

Noun

sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)

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

Declension

    declension of seme

	singular	plural
nominative	sȅme	semena
genitive	sȅmena	semena
dative	semenu	semenima
accusative	seme	semena
vocative	seme	semena
locative	semenu	semenima
instrumental	semenom	semenima

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Slovene

Etymology

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

Noun

seme n

1. seed

Declension

Declension of seme (neuter, n-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	seme	semeni	semena
accusative	seme	semeni	semena
genitive	semena	semen	semen
dative	semenu	semenoma	semenom
locative	semenu	semenih	semenih
instrumental	semenom	semenoma	semeni

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Venetian

Adjective

seme f

1. feminine plural of semo