Noun: seminal
| Singular | seminal |
| Plural | seminals |
Sample Sentences
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the seminals of spiders and scorpions [1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like seminal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥
5. Proto-Italic *sēmn̥
6. Latin sēmen
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Latin sēminālis
13. Old French seminalbor.
14. Middle English seminal
15. English seminal
16. From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis, ultimately from oblique stem of Latin sēmen, sēminis (“seed”) + -al. See: Middle English Nouns '
seminal', Latin Nouns '
sēminālis', Latin Nouns '
sēmen'.