semestris

Latin

Etymology

From sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”), cf. also mēnstruus (“monthly”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈmeːs.trɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈmɛs.tris]

Adjective

sēmēstris (neuter sēmēstre); third-declension two-termination adjective

alternative form of sēmēnstris

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	sēmēstris	sēmēstre		sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria
genitive	sēmēstris			sēmēstrium
dative	sēmēstrī			sēmēstribus
accusative	sēmēstrem	sēmēstre		sēmēstrīs sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria
ablative	sēmēstrī			sēmēstribus
vocative	sēmēstris	sēmēstre		sēmēstrēs	sēmēstria

Descendants

→ Catalan: semestre
→ German: Semester
- → Czech: semestr
- → Danish: semester
- → Dutch: semester
  - → Indonesian: semester
- → English: semester, semestre (obsolete)
  - → Cebuano: semester
  - → Chinese: sem
  - → Malayalam: സെമസ്റ്റർ (semasṟṟaṟ)
- → Hebrew: סֵמֶסְטֶר (seméster)
- → Hungarian: szemeszter
- → Yiddish: סעמעסטער (semester)
→ French: semestre
- → Polish: semestr
  - → Lithuanian: semèstras
- → Romanian: semestru
- → Russian: семе́стр (seméstr)
- → Turkish: sömestir
- → Ukrainian: семе́стр (seméstr)
→ Georgian: სემესტრი (semesṭri)
→ Italian: semestre
→ Macedonian: семе́стар (seméstar)
→ Norwegian Bokmål: semester
→ Portuguese: semestre
→ Serbo-Croatian: sèmestar, сѐместар
→ Spanish: semestre
- → Tagalog: semestre
→ Swedish: semester

References

“semestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“semestris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.