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Is semis a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word semis is a Scrabble US word. The word semis is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

S1E1M3I1S1

Is semis a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word semis is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

S1E1M3I1S1

Is semis a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word semis is a Words With Friends word. The word semis is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

MISES,SEISM,SEMIS,

4-letter words (8 found)

ISMS,MESS,MISE,MISS,SEIS,SEMI,SIES,SIMS,

3-letter words (8 found)

EMS,ESS,ISM,MES,MIS,SEI,SIM,SIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

EM,ES,IS,ME,MI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from semis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of semis

semis

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛmiːz/

Noun

semis

  1. plural of semi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛmɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmɪs

Noun

semis (plural semises)

  1. (historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Simes, Mises, Messi, seism, eSIMs, mises

Esperanto

Verb

semis

  1. past of semi

French

Etymology

From semer +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sə.mi/

Noun

semis m (plural semis)

  1. (agriculture) a technique for planting seeds on a terrain

Further reading

  • “semis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • mises, misse

Latin

Etymology

From sēmi- (“half”) + as (“a whole, a farthing”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈseː.mɪs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛː.mis]

Noun

sēmis m (genitive sēmissis); third declension

  1. a half, a half-unit
  2. a coin worth half an as

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Spanish: jeme
  • ⇒ Late Latin: semus
    • >? Italian: scemo (partly?)
    • >? Sardinian: semu
    • >? Sicilian: scemu
    • >? Venetan: semo
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exsēmāre
    • Italian: scemare, ⇒ scemo (partly?)
    • >? Sicilian: scimuniri

References

  • “semis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “semis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • semis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēmis.

Noun

semis m (plural semis)

  1. semis (a Roman coin worth half an as)

Noun

semis f pl

  1. plural of semi

Further reading

  • “semis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

semis

  1. indefinite genitive singular of semi

Anagrams

  • misse

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