Wordiyosemen
Latinseed, sow
Variants
seminsemensemi
About This Root
From Latin sēmen (seed), from the root of serere (to sow). In English, the 'seed' metaphor extends to intellectual origins: seminal means 'containing the seeds of future development,' seminar originally referred to a seedbed for ideas, and seminary was a place where knowledge is planted. The biological sense (semen) preserves the literal meaning.