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sēmĭnālis, e, adj [semen], of or belonging to seed, good for seed, seminal (late Lat.): vicia, Col. 11, 2, 76: membrum, Auct. Priap. 26, 2; cf. venae, Lact. Opif. Dei, 12: viae, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 18, 180: vascula, Theod. Prisc. 4, 2: vita, vegetable, Claud. Mam. Stat. Anim. 1, 21.
Plur. subst.: sē-mĭnālia, n., standing crops, Tert. adv. Marc. 13 fin.
* sēmĭ-ĭnānis (sēmĭn-), e, adj., halfempty, but half-full: orbis (lunae), Plin. 2, 18, 16, § 80.
sēmĭnānis, e, v. semiinanis.
sēmĭnārĭum, ii, v. seminarius, II.
sēmĭnārĭus, a, um.
- I. Adj. [semen], of or belonging to seed: seminarium pilum, for bruising seed, Cato, R. R. 10, 5.
- II. Subst.: sēmĭnārĭum, ii, n., a nursery, nursery-garden, seed-plot, seminary.
- A. Lit., Plin. 18, 27, 71, § 295; Cato, R. R. 46; 48; Varr. R. R. 1, 29; Col. 5, 6, 1; 11, 2, 16; 11, 2, 30; id. Arb. 1, 3; 2, 1 et saep.
- B. Trop. (class.): seminarium rei publicae, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 54: fons et seminarium triumphorum, id. Pis. 40, 97: Catilinarium, id. Cat. 2, 10, 23; so, judicum (veterani), id. Phil. 13, 2, 3: senatūs (equites), Liv. 42, 61, 5: exiguum militum, id. 6, 12: hostilis exercitus (Hispania), Flor. 2, 6, 38: ducum, Curt. 8, 6, 6: dulce hilaritatis (vinum), Varr. ap. Non. 28, 22: scelerum omnium (Bacchanalia), Liv. 39 epit.: omnium malorum, App. Mag. 74, p. 321, 30: rixarum, Hier. Ep. 27, 2: repudii, id. in Helv. 20.
sēmĭnātĭo, ōnis, f. [semino], a breeding, propagation, Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 3; Ambros. de Noë, 29, 107.
sēmĭnātor, ōris, m. [semino], an originator, producer, author (Ciceronian).
- I. Lit.: seminator et sator et parens omnium rerum (mundus), Cic. N. D. 2, 34, 86.
- II. Trop.: omnium malorum, Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 66: tamquam fallaciae seminatores, Lact. 5, 2, 17.