semita
Portuguese, noun
semita is spelled S-E-M-I-T-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,921st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Semita is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Semite (member of the Semites, an ethnic group of the Middle East)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sémita is a different word: “synonym of senda”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “membro do grupo semita”.
What does semita mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineSemite (member of the Semites, an ethnic group of the Middle East)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineSemitic (relating to the Semites)
- 2
femininemasculineSemitic (relating to the Semitic language family)
noun
- 1
femininesynonym of senda
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo ao grupo étnico e linguístico ao qual se atribui Sem como ancestral, e que compreende os hebreus, os assírios, os aramaicos, os fenícios e os árabes 2. relativo a judeu
noun: 1. membro do grupo semita
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of semita
- semitas plural
- sémitas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to semita
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is semita in Portuguese?
semita appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).