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Morphology
Lemmata
Forms: seme (data provider: donatus-sup), semi (data provider: donatus-sup)
Dictionary
Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Sém-e, s. m. dim. Sém-olélla, Sém-olína,
1. seed, grain germ; 2. seed, semen, sperm; 3. seed, cause, origin, spring. Poni giù il — di piangere,forget the cause of your tears and listen; 4. race, family, stock; 5. one of the four suits at cards. Pinca da —, a fool, stupid fellow. Ogni erba si conosce per lo seme, every tree is known by its fruit.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
seme: any kind of seed, off-spring or beginning of e<*>ase, seed-corne, the kirnell of any sruit. Also kind or generation, or that whereby a thing is nonrished and maintained.