semo

semo

1. first-person singular present indicative of semar

From Latin sēmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsemo/

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• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: se‧mo

semo (uncountable, accusative semon)

1. (botany) seed (collectively)

   Meronym: semero

   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     Kaj Dio diris: Kreskigu la tero verdaĵon, herbon, kiu naskas semon, fruktarbon, kiu donas laŭ sia speco frukton, kies semo estas en ĝi mem, sur la tero; kaj fariĝis tiel.

     And God said: Let the earth grow a plant, grass, which bears seeds, a fruit tree, which gives fruit according to its kind, whose seed is inside itself, on the earth; and it was made so.

2. human semen

   Synonyms: (slang) ĉuro, spermo

3. (figuratively) all of one's descendants; bloodline

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *essēmus, now superseded by the conjunctive form siamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.mo/
• Rhymes: -emo
• Hyphenation: sé‧mo

semo (archaic or dialectal, Romanesco)

1. alternative form of siamo: inflection of essere:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative

   “(...) onde, acciò che la scienza è ultima perfezione de la nostra anima, ne la quale sta la nostra ultima felicitade, tutti naturalmente al suo desiderio semo subietti.” (Convivio, Trattato primo - Dante Alighieri)

   “(...) thus, so that science is the ultimate perfection of our souls, in which lies our ultimate happines, we are all naturally subjected to the desire for it.”

semo

1. word

semo

1. flight (the act of flying)

semo

1. to fly

Compare Italian scemo.

semo (feminine singular sema, masculine plural semi, feminine plural seme)

1. stupid, foolish

semo

1. first-person plural present indicative of èser