semestris

Latin

Etymology

From sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”), cf. also mēnstruus (“monthly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈmeːs.trɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈmɛs.tris]

Adjective

sēmēstris (neuter sēmēstre); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. alternative form of sēmēnstris

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sēmēstris	sēmēstre		sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria
genitive	sēmēstris			sēmēstrium
dative	sēmēstrī			sēmēstribus
accusative	sēmēstrem	sēmēstre		sēmēstrīs sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria
ablative	sēmēstrī			sēmēstribus
vocative	sēmēstris	sēmēstre		sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria

Descendants

• → Catalan: semestre
• → German: Semester
  • → Czech: semestr
  • → Danish: semester
  • → Dutch: semester
    • → Indonesian: semester
  • → English: semester, semestre (obsolete)
    • → Cebuano: semester
    • → Chinese: sem
    • → Malayalam: സെമസ്റ്റർ (semasṟṟaṟ)
  • → Hebrew: סֵמֶסְטֶר (seméster)
  • → Hungarian: szemeszter
  • → Yiddish: סעמעסטער (semester)
• → French: semestre
  • → Polish: semestr
    • → Lithuanian: semèstras
  • → Romanian: semestru
  • → Russian: семе́стр (seméstr)
  • → Turkish: sömestir
  • → Ukrainian: семе́стр (seméstr)
• → Georgian: სემესტრი (semesṭri)
• → Italian: semestre
• → Macedonian: семе́стар (seméstar)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: semester
• → Portuguese: semestre
• → Serbo-Croatian: sèmestar, сѐместар
• → Spanish: semestre
  • → Tagalog: semestre
• → Swedish: semester

References

• “semestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semestris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.