semita
See also: sémita
English
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]semita (plural semitae)
- A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “semita”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semita m or f (masculine and feminine plural semites)
Noun
[edit]semita m or f by sense (plural semites)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semita”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Esperanto
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semita (accusative singular semitan, plural semitaj, accusative plural semitajn)
- singular past passive participle of semi
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semita m or f by sense (masculine plural semiti, feminine plural semite)
Noun
[edit]semita m or f by sense (masculine plural semiti, feminine plural semite)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semìta”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin sēmita.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]semita f (plural semite) (obsolete)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sèmita”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé(d) (“by oneself; away, without”) + *mey- (“change, exchange”) + *-téh₂. For *swé(d), compare sē-, sē, sed. For *mey-, compare meō.[1][2] The LIV disagrees with De Vaan's reconstruction of *h₂mey- and prefers *mey-,[3] though Beekes agrees with De Vaan.[4] Compare trāmes.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈseː.mɪ.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛː.mi.ta]
Noun
[edit]sēmita f (genitive sēmitae); first declension
- narrow way, footpath, path, pathway
- c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.4.14:
- nē dēlectēris sēmitīs impiōrum nec tibi placeat malōrum via
- Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- nē dēlectēris sēmitīs impiōrum nec tibi placeat malōrum via
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sēmita | sēmitae |
| genitive | sēmitae | sēmitārum |
| dative | sēmitae | sēmitīs |
| accusative | sēmitam | sēmitās |
| ablative | sēmitā | sēmitīs |
| vocative | sēmita | sēmitae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Insular Romance:
- Old Sardinian: semida
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983), “senda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 204
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sēmĭta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 441
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “meō, meāre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 373-374
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sē-, se-, sō-, so-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 549-550
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 426
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀμείβω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 85-86
Further reading
[edit]- “sēmĭta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “semita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sēmĭta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,420/3.
- “sēmita” on page 1,732/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- “sēmita” on page 1,909/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Sem + -ita, from Late Latin Sēm, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from Biblical Hebrew שם (šēm). Compare German Semit, New Latin Sēmīta, French sémite.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: se‧mi‧ta
Noun
[edit]semita m or f by sense (plural semitas)
- Semite (member of the Semites, an ethnic group of the Middle East)
Adjective
[edit]semita m or f (plural semitas)
- Semitic (relating to the Semites)
- (linguistics) Semitic (relating to the Semitic language family)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semita”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “semita”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /seˈmita/ [seˈmi.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ita
- Syllabification: se‧mi‧ta
- Homophone: (Latin America) cemita
Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semita m or f (masculine and feminine plural semitas)
Noun
[edit]semita m or f by sense (plural semitas)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]semita f (plural semitas)
- (Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador) alternative form of cemita
Further reading
[edit]- “semita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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