# seminarium
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēminārium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌseː.miˈnaː.ri.ʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: se‧mi‧na‧ri‧um
* Rhymes: -aːriʏm

### Noun

seminarium n (plural seminaria)
* a seminary
    Synonym: seminarie

## Latin
### Etymology

From sēmen (“seed”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”), that is, a place for sowing the seeds of knowledge.

### Noun

sēminārium n (genitive sēmināriī or sēminārī); second declension
* seminary
* breeding ground
* plant nursery; arboretum
* nursery or daycare for children

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: seminari
* → Danish: seminarium
* → Dutch: seminarie
** Afrikaans: seminarie
** → Indonesian: seminari
* → Dutch: seminarium
* → English: seminary
* → French: séminaire
** → Romanian: seminar
** → Turkish: seminer
* → German: Seminar (see there for further descendants)
* → Greek: σεμινάριο (seminário)
* → Hungarian: szeminárium
* → Italian: seminario
* → Macedonian: семинар (seminar)
* → Norwegian: seminar
* → Polish: seminarium
* → Portuguese: seminario
* → Russian: семинария (seminarija)
** → Kazakh: семинария (seminariä)
* → Serbo-Croatian: seminar / семинар
* → Spanish: seminario
** → Tagalog: seminaryo
* → Swedish: seminarium
* → Ukrainian: семінар (seminar)

### References

* “seminarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “seminarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* seminarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* seminarium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēminārium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ.miˈna.rjum/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arjum
* Syllabification: se‧mi‧na‧rium

### Noun

seminarium n
* (Roman Catholicism) seminary (theological school)
* seminar (class held for advanced studies)
    Synonym: konwersatorium

#### Derived terms

* seminaryjny
* seminarzysta
* seminarzystka

### Further reading

* seminarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* seminarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* seminarie (nonstandard)

### Etymology

From Latin seminarium, used in Swedish since 1638.

### Noun

seminarium n
* a seminar, a lecture, a presentation; a situation for teaching and discussion
* a seminary, a school for priests and/or teachers

#### Usage notes

Since compounds are made with seminarie-, it is a common mistake (but still an error) to assume this is the basic form (ett seminarie).

#### Related terms

* folkskoleseminarium
* prästseminarium
* seminariebibliotek
* seminariedeltagare
* seminarieledare
* seminarieprogram
* seminarieserie
* seminarieuppsats
* seminarieövning
* seminarist

### References

* seminarium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* seminarium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* immunisera