seme1
/siːm
/noun
Another term for semanteme.Semic analysis is an operation readers perform unconsciously when they identify in a text verbal derivations from a key word's semantic features, the semes....
- The seme of indebtedness attaches itself definitively to Peter in the board meeting where George is obliged to come to his defence.
- As we know, any word corresponds to a sememe, a set of distinctive semantic features, the semes, whose relationships determine that word's meaning (for example, the semes human and female are components of the sememe woman).
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek sēma 'sign'.
semé2
/ˈsɛmi/ /ˈsɛmeɪ /(also semée)
adjective Heraldry
Covered with small bearings of indefinite number (e.g. stars, fleurs-de-lis) arranged all over the field: semé of crosses flory...
- When the number of charges exceeds six, they produce the appearance of a pattern and the field thus covered is called semé (sowing) or said to be powdered.
- As a result the municipality received on 10 Apr 1986 a new Coat of Arms: blue with a semé of silver blocks and charged with a lion rampant armed red, surmontée a yellow crown of three leaves and two pearls.
Origin
Late Middle English: French, literally 'sown', past participle of semer.