Semen

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late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘seed’, from serere ‘to sow’.

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

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semen (n.)

late 14c., from Latin semen "seed of plants, animals, or men; race, inborn characteristic; posterity, progeny, offspring," figuratively "origin, essence, principle, cause," from PIE *semen- "seed," suffixed form of root *sē- "to sow."