Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

semined

/ˈsɛmɪnd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sem-ined
IPA: /ˈsɛmɪnd/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.

Example Sentences

"Her garments blue, and semined with stars."
"To receiue this Duke for the Dutchie of Guyen, and Earledome of Ponthieu, Philip de Valoys sate crowned in violet veluet, semined with golden lillies […]"
"Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]"
"He [Aldous Huxley], too, has a passion for […] immense erudition, immense fancy, incessant wit, and a verbal surface richly semined (to borrow his method) with oddities that smell of camphor."

Etymology

As if from a verb *semine, ultimately from Latin sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”, whence English semen) + -ō. Doublet of semé and seminate.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: sēminō
Suffix: sēmen

Questions

How do you pronounce semined?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɛmɪnd/.
What does semined mean?: Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
Where does semined come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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