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• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmiːz/

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semis

1. plural ofsemi

Borrowed fromLatinsēmis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪs/

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• Rhymes:-ɛmɪs

semis (pluralsemises)

1. (historical) A smallbronzecoin minted during theRoman Republic, valued at half anas.

• Simes,Mises,Messi,seism,eSIMs,mises

semis

1. past ofsemi

Fromsemer +‎-is.

• IPA^(key): /sə.mi/

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semis m (invariable)

1. (agriculture) a technique for planting seeds on a terrain

• “semis”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• mises,misse

Fromsēmi-(“half”) +as(“a whole, a farthing”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈseː.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.mis]

sēmis m (genitivesēmissis);third declension

1. ahalf, a half-unit
2. acoin worth half anas

Third-declension noun.

• Spanish:jeme
• ⇒ Late Latin:semus
  • >? Italian:scemo(partly?)
  • >? Sardinian:semu
  • >? Sicilian:scemu
  • >? Venetan:semo
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:*exsēmāre
  • Italian:scemare,⇒scemo(partly?)
  • >? Sicilian:scimuniri

• “semis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semis”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “semis”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • 6 per cent (i.e. if for 100 denarii, asses, one pays half a denarius, half an as per month):semisses
    
  • money is plentiful at 6 per cent:semissibus magna copia est
    
  • 6 per cent:usurae semisses (Jurists)
    

Borrowed fromLatinsēmis.

semis m (pluralsemis)

1. semis(a Roman coin worth half anas)

semis f pl

1. plural ofsemi

• “semis”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

semis

1. indefinitegenitivesingular ofsemi

• misse

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