sémen
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sēmen (“seed; semen”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥. Doublet of semente and semilha.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.mɛn/
- Hyphenation: sé‧men
Noun
sémen m (plural sémenes)
- European Portuguese standard spelling of sêmen
Further reading
- “sémen”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026