semita

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by ToilBot (talk | contribs) as of 21:45, 15 December 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: sémita

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin semita (“a path”).

Noun

semita (plural semitae)

  1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Italian

Adjective

Lua error in Module:it-headword at line 114: Parameter 1 is not used by this template.

  1. Semitic

Synonyms

Noun

semita m (plural semiti)

  1. Semite

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sēmitā, from Proto-Indo-European *swé(d) (“by oneself; away, without”) +‎ *(h₂)mey- (“change, exchange”) +‎ *-téh₂. For *swé(d), compare sē-, sē, sed. For *(h₂)mey-, compare meō.[1][2] The LIV disagrees with De Vaans' reconstruction of *h₂mey- but prefers *mey-,[3] though Beekes agrees with De Vaan.[4] Compare trāmes.

Pronunciation

Noun

sēmita f (genitive sēmitae); first declension

  1. narrow way, footpath

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēmita sēmitae
Genitive sēmitae sēmitārum
Dative sēmitae sēmitīs
Accusative sēmitam sēmitās
Ablative sēmitā sēmitīs
Vocative sēmita sēmitae

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants of sēmita in other languages

References

  • “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)
  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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

Portuguese

Noun

Lua error in Module:pt-headword at line 232: Unrecognized gender: m-f

  1. Semite (member of the Semites, an ethnic group of the Middle East)

Adjective

Lua error in Module:pt-headword at line 111: Parameter 1 is not used by this template.

  1. Semitic (relating to the Semites)
  2. (linguistics) Semitic (relating to the Semitic language family)

Synonyms

Spanish

Pronunciation

Adjective

semita m or f (masculine and feminine plural semitas)

  1. Semitic

Noun

semita m or f (plural semitas)

  1. Semite
  2. (Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, feminine only) a kind of biscuit

Derived terms

Further reading

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=semita&oldid=58168410"