semis

See also: semiš

English

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semis

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmiːz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

semis

1. plural of semi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪs

Noun

semis (plural semises)

1. (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.

Translations

small bronze coin

Spanish: semis m

Anagrams

• Simes, Mises, Messi, seism, eSIMs, mises

Esperanto

Verb

semis

1. past of semi

French

Etymology

From semer +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.mi/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

semis m (invariable)

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mises, misse

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		20[a], [b], [c], [d], [e]
	←  1	II 2	2  → [a], [b]	3  →
Cardinal: duo     Ordinal: secundus, alter     Adverbial: bis     Proportional: duplus     Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex     Distributive: bīnus     Collective: bīniō     Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension

1. a half, a half-unit
2. a coin worth half an as

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sēmis	sēmissēs
genitive	sēmissis	sēmissum
dative	sēmissī	sēmissibus
accusative	sēmissem	sēmissēs
ablative	sēmisse	sēmissibus
vocative	sēmis	sēmissēs

Derived terms

• sēstertius

Descendants

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

References

• “semis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “semis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)
    

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

Noun

semis m (plural semis)

1. semis (a Roman coin worth half an as)

Noun

semis f pl

1. plural of semi

Further reading

• “semis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

semis

1. indefinite genitive singular of semi

Anagrams

• misse