semen

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).

_Responderunt: "Semen Abrahae sumus, et nemini servimus unquam. — Pascal's Pensées, Blaise Pascal
The hair is dressed with olive-oil or daubed over with semen, or liquid butter. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long, I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower, Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come

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