Word of the Week

seminal

PRONUNCIATION:

(SEM-uh-nuhl)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Highly original and proving influential on later work.
2. Of or relating to semen or seed.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin semen (seed). Ultimately from the Indo-European root se- (to sow) which also gave us seed, sow, season, seminary, and disseminate. Earliest documented use: 1398.