seme

See also: semé, śeme, and sème

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːm/
• Homophones: seam, seem
• Rhymes: -iːm

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

1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme (plural semes)

1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

1. Obsolete form of semé.
   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes

Etymology 5

Borrowed 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 Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre‎^[1], McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, 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^[2], volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:

     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 Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World‎^[3], Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, 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, emes, mese, seem, smee

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) seme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̺e.me/

• Audio

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Noun

seme ?

1. son

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin sēmen.

Noun

seme m (plural semes)

1. semen

Synonyms

• esperma, inzo

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Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seme/

Verb

seme

1. to eat (intransitive)

Noun

seme m

1. food

Related terms

• same

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseme]
• enPR: séme, IPA^(key): /ˈseme/

Noun

seme m (plural semi)

1. (botany) seed, pip
2. (botany, in some cases) bean
3. (anatomy, colloquial) semen

   Synonym: sperma

4. (card games) suit

Related terms

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

Further reading

• seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• mese

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) sjȅme

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sèːmɛ/

Noun

sẹ́me n

1. seed

Inflection

Declension of seme (neuter, n-stem)
nom. sing.	seme
gen. sing.	semena
	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

1. feminine plural of semo