germinal (comparativemoregerminal,superlativemostgerminal)
- Relating tospring
- Pertaining, similar, or belonging to agerm.
- (botany) Relating to a plantovary.
- (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin;formative.
My upbringing was thegerminal idea behind the opera.
- (figuratively) Highlyinfluential;seminal.
This case wasgerminal to development of the theory of joint participation.
In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to maleseminal (germ(“egg”) vs.semen).
pertaining or belonging to a germ
- “germinal”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “germinal”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
germinal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralgerminals)
- germinal
germinal m (pluralgerminals)
- (historical)Germinal (the month)
FromLatingermin-(“sprout, bud”) +-al.
germinal (femininegerminale,masculine pluralgerminaux,feminine pluralgerminales)
- germinal
germinal m (pluralgerminals)
- (historical)Germinal(the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- (French Republican Calendar months)mois ducalendrier républicain; vendémiaire,brumaire,frimaire,nivôse,pluviôse,ventôse,germinal,floréal,prairial,messidor,thermidor,fructidor(Category:fr:Months)
Borrowed fromFrenchgerminal.
germinal m (uncountable)
- Germinal
- IPA(key): /xeɾmiˈnal/[xeɾ.miˈnal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:ger‧mi‧nal
germinal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralgerminales)
- germinal
germinal m (pluralgerminales)
- Germinal
