Translation
seed
Word origin
From Latin semen ('seed'), the root behind English seminar and disseminate.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- semen
- English cognates
- semen, seminar, disseminate
Examples
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We put the seeds in the ground.
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From a small seed grows a big tree.
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The birds ate all the seeds.
is the seed; semi is to sow it. Because Esperanto builds freely, the sower is a semanto and the sowing season is semtempo. The figurative use works exactly as in English: dubo, the seed of doubt.
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