sementium

Latin

Etymology 1

Noun

sēmentium

1. genitive plural of sēmentis

Etymology 2

Neuter form based on etymology 1. The singular sementium is first attested in the Vetus Itala. The plural sementia is attested in Pseudo-Augustine (late 6th. c.) and in a document dating from 820 CE.

Noun

sementium n (genitive sementiī or sementī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. (nonstandard) seed

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sementium	sementia
Genitive	sementiī sementī1	sementiōrum
Dative	sementiō	sementiīs
Accusative	sementium	sementia
Ablative	sementiō	sementiīs
Vocative	sementium	sementia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

All reflect the plural sementia, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: simintsã
  • Megleno-Romanian: siminţă
  • Romanian: sămânță
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: semenza
  • Sicilian: simenza
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: scmenza
  • Friulian: semence, samence
  • Old Ligurian: somenza
    • Ligurian: sümensa
  • Lombard: sminza, somenza
  • Piedmontese: smens m
  • Venetian: semensa, samenzha, simensa
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: semênce, semensa
  • Old French: semance, semence, semenche, somence
    • Champenois: smas, soumace
    • French: semence ⇒ ensemencer (verb)
    • Lorrain: smas, semance, s'moce, smos, semauce
    • Norman: sumenche, seumanche, sumence, semenche ⇒ s'menchi (verb)
    • Picard: séminche, chéminche
    • Walloon: simince, sumince
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: semença
  • Occitan: semença
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: simienza (obsolete) ⇒ semencera

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĕmĕntia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 430