Semen

English

Noun

Semen (uncountable)

1. The fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.

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Semen

Synonyms

• (Male reproductory fluid): ejaculate, sperm (slang): jissom, jism, jizz, spunk, cum, seed, spurt, spooge
• See also Thesaurus:semen

Thesaurus

androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, autacoid, bile, chalone, digestive secretion, endocrine, gall, gastric juice, hormone, intestinal juice, male gamete, milt, mucus, pancreatic juice, pollen, prostatic fluid, protein, rheum, salivary secretion, scum, seed, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, tears, thyroxin

Etymology

From Latin sēmen (“seed”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːmən
• Homophone: seamen

Translations

male reproductory fluid

Albanian: spermë (sq) f., lëng seminal (sq) m. Arabic: منى (ar) (máni) m. Armenian: սերմ (hy) (serm), սերմնահեղուկ (hy) (sermnaheġuk) Azeri: please add this translation if you can Basque: hazi (eu) Bulgarian: сперма (bg) (sperma), семенна течност (bg) Catalan: esperma (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: trad. and simpl. 精液 (jyutping: zing1 jik6) Mandarin: trad. and simpl. 精液 (pinyin: jīngyè) Taiwanese: trad. and simpl. 精液 (pinyin: jīngyì) Czech: semeno (cs) n. Danish: sæd (da) Dutch: sperma (nl) Esperanto: ejakulaĵo (eo), spermo (eo) Estonian: seemnevedelik (et), sperma (et) Finnish: siemenneste (fi), sperma (fi) French: semence (fr) f., sperme (fr) f. Georgian: თესლი (ka) (t'esli) German: Samen (de) m. Greek: σπέρμα (el) n. Gujarati: વીર્ય (gu) (vīrya) Hebrew: זֶרַע (he) (zera') m., זִרְמָה (he) (zirma) f. Hindi: वीर्य (hi) (vīrya) m. Hungarian: ondó (hu) Icelandic: sæði (is) n., sáð (is) n., sáðvökvi (is) m.

Indonesian: air mani (id) Italian: seme (it) m. Korean: 정액 (ko), (slang) 좆물 (ko) (jotmul) Latin: sēmen (la) n. Latvian: sēkla (lv) f. Lithuanian: sperma (lt) f. Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Marathi: रेत (mr) Norwegian: sæd (no) m. Persian: منی (fa) (mani) Polish: sperma (pl) f. Portuguese: sêmen (pt) m. Romanian: spermă (ro) f. Russian: семя (ru) (semja) n. Sanskrit: रेतस् (sa) (retas) n. Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: semen (es) m. Swedish: sädesvätska (sv), sperma (sv), sagge (sv) c. Tagalog: punlay (tl), tabod (tl), tamod (tl), semilya (tl) Tamil: விந்து (ta) (vintu) Telugu: వీర్యము (te), రేతస్సు (te) Thai: น้ำอสุจิ (th) (náam à-sù-jì) Turkish: meni (tr), sperm (tr), döl (tr) Urdu: ویریہ (ur) (vīrya) m., منی (ur) Vietnamese: tinh dịch (vi)

Anagrams

• mesne
• neems

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Indonesian

Noun

Semen

1. cement (a powdered substance)
2. The fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.

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Latin

Noun

sēmen (genitive sēminis); n, third declension

1. seed (of plants)

   Semen manu spargere.

   To scatter seed by hand.

2. semen
3. graft
4. offspring
5. cause
6. (poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))
   • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

     et ignis semina convolvunt e nubibus.

     and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Inflection

Third declension, neuter variation (3:N).

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	sēmen	sēmina
genitive	sēminis	sēminum
dative	sēminī	sēminibus
accusative	sēmen	sēmina
ablative	sēmine	sēminibus
vocative	sēmen	sēmina

Derived terms

See also

sēmentifer sēminālia sēminālis sēminārium sēminārius sēminātiō

sēminātor sēminium sēminiverbius sēminō sēminōsus

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Middle English

Verb

Semen

1. to seem
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

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Spanish

Noun

1. semen, sperm

Related terms

• semilla
• inseminar