semis

semis

1. plural of semi

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

semis (plural semises)

1. (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.

• Messi, Simes, mises, seism

Latin sēmis.

• IPA^(key): /sə.mi/

semis m (plural semis)

1. (agriculture) A technique for planting seeds on a terrain.

• “semis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• mises, misse

From sēmi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.mis/, [ˈseː.mɪs]

sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension

1. a half, a half-unit
2. a coin worth half an ās

Third declension.

• semis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• semis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 6 per cent (i.e. if for 100 denarii, asses, one pays half a denarius, half an as per month): semisses
    
  • money is plentiful at 6 per cent: semissibus magna copia est
    
  • 6 per cent: usurae semisses (Jurists)
    

Latin sēmis

semis m (plural semis)

1. semis

semis

1. indefinite genitive singular of semi