seminate

English

Etymology

Latin seminatus, past participle of seminare (“to sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪneɪt/

Verb

seminate (third-person singular simple present seminates, present participle seminating, simple past and past participle seminated)

1. To sow; to spread; to propagate.
   • 1611, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie:

     If this Cross were seminated all over with Flowers de lis , shewing upon the fides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them , then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “seminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Manistee, etamines, matinees, matinées, miseaten

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

seminate

1. inflection of seminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

seminate f pl

1. feminine plural of seminato

Anagrams

• esantemi, sementai

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sēmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of sēminō