semi
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛmi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛmi
- Hyphenation: semi
Noun
[edit]semi (plural semis)
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
- 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
- I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
- 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52:
- The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
- 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- 1967, Tommy Faile (lyrics and music), “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:
- I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill
- 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Australia: Allen & Unwin, unnumbered page:
- All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
- (informal) A semifinal.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys, page 158:
- The twink got a semi just from that look.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
Translations
[edit]semi-detached house — see semi-detached
semi-erection
|
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]semi (present semas, past semis, future semos, conditional semus, volitive semu)
- (intransitive) to sow
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of semi
present | past | future | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
tense | semas | semis | semos | ||||
active participle | semanta | semantaj | seminta | semintaj | semonta | semontaj | |
acc. | semantan | semantajn | semintan | semintajn | semontan | semontajn | |
passive participle | semata | semataj | semita | semitaj | semota | semotaj | |
acc. | sematan | sematajn | semitan | semitajn | semotan | semotajn | |
nominal active participle | semanto | semantoj | seminto | semintoj | semonto | semontoj | |
acc. | semanton | semantojn | seminton | semintojn | semonton | semontojn | |
nominal passive participle | semato | sematoj | semito | semitoj | semoto | semotoj | |
acc. | sematon | sematojn | semiton | semitojn | semoton | semotojn | |
adverbial active participle | semante | seminte | semonte | ||||
adverbial passive participle | semate | semite | semote |
infinitive | semi | imperative | semu | conditional | semus |
---|
Derived terms
[edit]- dissemi (“scatter; disseminate”)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See semi-. Sense "semi-erection" a semantic loan from English semi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semi (comparative semimpi, superlative semein) (predicative only, colloquial)
- mid, mediocre, not bad, not good
- No se esitys oli aika semi. ― Well, the show was just okay
Adverb
[edit]semi (not comparable) (attributive only, colloquial)
- sort of, kind of, pretty
- Synonyms: aika, jokseenkin, melko
- semi ookoo ― pretty okay
- semi paska ― kind of shit
Noun
[edit]semi (colloquial)
- partial tumescence, semi-erection
- Synonym: puolierektio
Declension
[edit]Inflection of semi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | semi | semit | |
genitive | semin | semien | |
partitive | semiä | semejä | |
illative | semiin | semeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | semi | semit | |
accusative | nom. | semi | semit |
gen. | semin | ||
genitive | semin | semien | |
partitive | semiä | semejä | |
inessive | semissä | semeissä | |
elative | semistä | semeistä | |
illative | semiin | semeihin | |
adessive | semillä | semeillä | |
ablative | semiltä | semeiltä | |
allative | semille | semeille | |
essive | seminä | semeinä | |
translative | semiksi | semeiksi | |
abessive | semittä | semeittä | |
instructive | — | semein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay semi (“shoot, sprout”).
- Semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦼꦩꦶ (semi, “sprouting”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sêmi (first-person possessive semiku, second-person possessive semimu, third-person possessive seminya)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “semi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]semi m
Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]semi
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]semi
- Alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)
Old Norse
[edit]Verb
[edit]semi
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Verb
[edit]semi
- first-person singular present/imperative active of seti (“to sleep”)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]semi f (plural semis)
- (colloquial) semifinal, semi-final
- Synonym: semifinal
- 2022 March 19, Alberto Rubio, “El Chelsea se mete en semis de FA Cup y manda un 'aviso' al Real Madrid”, in Marca[3]:
- 2022 March 16, Aimara G. Gil, “El Barcelona sigue intratable y se mete en semis con otra goleada”, in As[4]:
- 2021 August 19, Lautaro Tiburzio, “No habrá cuarteto de brasileños en semis: Barcelona eliminó a Fluminense”, in Bolavip[5]:
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]semi
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]semi c
- Clipping of semifinal.
Declension
[edit]Declension of semi
Venetan
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semi
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛmi
- Rhymes:English/ɛmi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- British English
- Irish English
- Australian English
- Canadian English
- English informal terms
- English terms with quotations
- New Zealand English
- American English
- English slang
- en:Housing
- Esperanto terms suffixed with -i
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/emi
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto verbs
- Esperanto intransitive verbs
- Finnish semantic loans from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/emi
- Rhymes:Finnish/emi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adjectives
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish adverbs
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian semantic loans from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian uncountable nouns
- Indonesian dialectal terms
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- Old Norse non-lemma forms
- Old Norse verb forms
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali verb forms
- Pali verb forms in Latin script
- Spanish clippings
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili non-lemma forms
- Swahili noun forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish clippings
- Venetan non-lemma forms
- Venetan adjective forms