seme

See also: semé, śeme, and sème

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːm/
  • 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.

Etymology 2

Verb

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)

  1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

seme

  1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

seme

  1. Obsolete form of semé.

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, 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, 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, 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

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

seme

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

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̺e.me/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

seme

  1. son

Declension

"seme"
(animate noun) declension
indefinite singular plural
absolutivesemesemeasemeak
ergativesemeksemeaksemeek
dativesemerisemearisemeei
genitivesemerensemearensemeen
comitativesemerekinsemearekinsemeekin
causativesemerengatiksemearengatiksemeengatik
benefactivesemerentzatsemearentzatsemeentzat
instrumentalsemezsemeazsemeez
inessivesemerengansemearengansemeengan
allativesemerenganasemearenganasemeengana
terminativesemerenganainosemearenganainosemeenganaino
directivesemerenganantzsemearenganantzsemeenganantz
destinativesemerenganakosemearenganakosemeenganako
ablativesemerengandiksemearengandiksemeengandik
partitivesemerik
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prolativesemetzat
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Galician

Etymology

From Latin sēmen.

Noun

seme m (plural semes)

  1. semen

Synonyms

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

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

Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsèːmɛ/
  • Tonal orthography: sẹ́me

Noun

séme n (genitive seména or sémena, nominative plural seména or sémena)

  1. seed

Declension

Venetian

Adjective

seme

  1. feminine plural of semo
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