semi

The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmi
• Hyphenation: semi

semi (plural semis)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
   • 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,

     I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.

   • 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52:

     The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.

   • 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 150:

     The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
   • 1967, Tommy Faile (lyrics and music), “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:

     I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill

   • 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Australia: Allen & Unwin, unnumbered page:

     All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.

3. (informal) A semifinal.
4. (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
   • 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys, page 158:

     The twink got a semi just from that look.

5. (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
   • 2023 April 28, “Got Dat Muneh” (track 10, 0:48 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), GHOST‎:

     See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my semi
     […]
     For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted
     Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin'
     Ain't no kiddin', got that semi

• EMIs, ESMI, IMEs, MSIE, Meis, Sime, eSIM, mise

From semo +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsemi]
• Rhymes: -emi
• Hyphenation: se‧mi

semi (present semas, past semis, future semos, conditional semus, volitive semu)

1. (intransitive) to sow

• dissemi (“scatter; disseminate”)

See semi-. Sense "semi-erection" a semantic loan from English semi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsemi/, [ˈs̠e̞mi]
• Rhymes: -emi
• Syllabification^(key): se‧mi

semi (comparative semimpi, superlative semein) (predicative only, colloquial)

1. mid, mediocre, not bad, not good

   No se esitys oli aika semi. ― Well, the show was just okay

semi (not comparable) (attributive only, colloquial)

1. sort of, kind of, pretty

   Synonyms: aika, jokseenkin, melko

   semi ookoo ― pretty okay

   semi paska ― kind of shit

semi (colloquial)

1. partial tumescence, semi-erection

   Synonym: puolierektio

• “semi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From Malay semi (“shoot, sprout”).

• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦼꦩꦶ (semi, “sprouting”).

• IPA^(key): [səˈmi]
• Hyphenation: sê‧mi

sêmi (first-person possessive semiku, second-person possessive semimu, third-person possessive seminya)

1. shoot, sprout

   Synonyms: taruk, tunas

2. (dialect) sprouting

• “semi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

semi m

1. plural of seme

• mesi, mise

semi

1. Rōmaji transcription of せみ
2. Rōmaji transcription of セミ

semi

1. Alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)

semi

1. third-person active present subjunctive of semja

semi

1. first-person singular present/imperative active of seti (“to sleep”)

Clipping of semifinal.

semi f (plural semis)

1. (colloquial) semifinal, semi-final

   Synonym: semifinal

   • 2022 March 19, Alberto Rubio, “El Chelsea se mete en semis de FA Cup y manda un 'aviso' al Real Madrid”, in Marca‎:
   • 2022 March 16, Aimara G. Gil, “El Barcelona sigue intratable y se mete en semis con otra goleada”, in As‎:
   • 2021 August 19, Lautaro Tiburzio, “No habrá cuarteto de brasileños en semis: Barcelona eliminó a Fluminense”, in Bolavip‎:

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semi

1. plural of usemi

semi c

1. Clipping of semifinal.

semi

1. masculine plural of semo