Sem Iとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmi/, /ˈsɛmaɪ/
• 韻: -ɛmi
• ハイフネーション: semi

名詞

semi (複数形 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.

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
   • 1967, Tommy Faile (lyrics かつ 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, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 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.

アナグラム

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

語源

Borrowed from Latin semi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi/*sēmi-. Cognate to English sam, and to hemi- (via Ancient Greek).

発音

• IPA^(key): /sɛmi/, /sɛmaɪ/

接頭辞

semi-

1. half
2. partial, incomplete
3. somewhat, rather, quasi-
   • 1994, Eric Bogosian, Pounding nails in the floor with my forehead:

     Nothing like a nice hot ethnic dish before you go to see that semi-expensive, semi-meaningful Off-Broadway show.

使用する際の注意点

• In British English, the semi- forms as usually hyphenated as evidenced by OED's semi- entries predominantly using hyphen.

同意語

• (half): half-, hemi-, demi-
• (partial): demi-
• (somewhat): quasi-, -ish

派生語

• semiflat

Further reading

• “semi-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “semi-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “semi-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

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

Latin

別の表記

• sē- (in sēlībra, sēmodius)
• sēm- (before vowels, e.g. sēmis)
• sin- ( in sinciput)

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *sēmi-. Cognate with Sanskrit सामि (sāmí), Ancient Greek ἡμι- (hēmi-), Old High German sami-.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seː.mi/, [s̠eːmɪ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.mi/, [semi]

接頭辞

sēmi-

1. half

派生語

派生した語

• → English: semi-, semi
• → French: semi-
• → Italian: semi-
• → Portuguese: semi-
• → Spanish: semi-

参照

• “semi-”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semi-”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers