germinal
See also: Germinal
English
Adjective
germinal (comparative more germinal, superlative most germinal)
- Relating to spring
- Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
- (botany) Relating to a plant ovary.
- (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
- My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.
- (figuratively) Highly influential; seminal.
- This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation.
Usage notes
In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male seminal (germ (“egg”) vs. semen).
Derived terms
Derived terms
- abgerminal
- adgerminal
- germinal cell
- germinal disk
- germinal epithelium
- germinal matrix
- germinal membrane
- germinal spot
- germinal vesicle
- postgerminal
- subgerminal
Translations
Further reading
Catalan
Pronunciation
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.mi.nal/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Homophones: germinale, germinales, germinals
Adjective
germinal (feminine germinale, masculine plural germinaux, feminine plural germinales)
Noun
germinal m (plural germinals)
- (historical) Germinal (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
See also
- (French Republican Calendar months) mois du calendrier républicain; vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire, nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse, germinal, floréal, prairial, messidor, thermidor, fructidor (Category: fr:Months)
Further reading
- “germinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Declension
declension of germinal (singular only)
singular | ||
---|---|---|
m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) germinal | germinalul |
genitive/dative | (unui) germinal | germinalului |
vocative | germinalule |
Spanish
Further reading
- “germinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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