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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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This word is part of lesson 29.