Semination
/ˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃən/noun
The act or process of sowing or spreading seed.
Did you know?Semination comes from the same Latin root as semen, so its oldest sense is not abstract at all but the physical act of scattering seed into the earth.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*seh₂-
“to sow, plant, scatter seed”
Latin
Latin
semen
“seed, offspring, source”
Latin
Latin
seminare
“to sow seed; plant”
Late Latin
Latin
seminatio
“a sowing, planting”
Middle English
English
seminacioun
“the act of sowing seed”
Modern English
English
semination
“the act or process of sowing or spreading seed”
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