séminal
French, adjective/se.mi.nal/
séminal is spelled S-É-M-I-N-A-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 85,597th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Séminal is a French adjective meaning “seminal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la semence”.
What does séminal mean in English?
adjective
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seminal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la semence. 2. Qualifie une œuvre intellectuelle ou artistique qui a donné naissance à une descendance, à des héritiers pouvant se revendiquer d’elle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of séminal
- séminale feminine
- séminaux masculine plural
- séminales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce séminal?
- /se.mi.nal/
- \se.mi.nal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to séminal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is séminal in French?
séminal appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).