sementium

Latin

Etymology 1

Noun

sēmentium

  1. genitive plural of sēmentis

Etymology 2

Neuter form based on etymology 1. The singular sementium is first attested in the Vetus Itala. The plural sementia is attested in Pseudo-Augustine (late 6th. c.) and in a document dating from 820 CE.

Noun

sementium n (genitive sementiī or sementī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. (nonstandard) seed
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative sementium sementia
genitive sementiī
sementī1 		sementiōrum
dative sementiō sementiīs
accusative sementium sementia
ablative sementiō sementiīs
vocative sementium sementia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

(Note: all reflect the plural sementia, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.)

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: simintsã
    • Megleno-Romanian: siminţă
    • Romanian: sămânță
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: semenza
    • Sicilian: simenza
    • Venetan: semensa, samenzha, simensa
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: scmenza
    • Lombard: sminza, somenza
    • Old Ligurian: somenza
      • Ligurian: sümensa
    • Piedmontese: smens m
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: semênce, semensa
    • Old French: semance, semence, semenche, somence
      • Champenois: smas, soumace
      • French: semence
      • Lorrain: smas, semance, s'moce, smos, semauce
      • Norman: sumenche, seumanche, sumence, semenche, ⇒ s'menchi (verb)
      • Picard: séminche, chéminche
      • Walloon: simince, sumince
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: semença
    • Occitan: semença
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Spanish: semiença

References

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