germinal

See also: Germinal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜː(ɹ)mɪnəl/

Adjective

germinal (comparative more germinal, superlative most germinal)

1. Relating to spring
2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
3. (botany) Relating to a plant ovary.
4. (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.

   My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.

5. (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).

Synonyms

• (relating to spring): vernal
• (relating to seed): seminal
• (influential): seminal

Derived terms

• abgerminal
• adgerminal
• germinal cell
• germinal center
• germinal centre
• germinal disc
• germinal disk
• germinal epithelium
• germinal matrix
• germinal membrane
• germinal spot
• germinal vesicle
• postgerminal
• subgerminal

 

Translations

pertaining or belonging to a germ

• Bulgarian: зародишен (zarodišen), зачатъчен (bg) (začatǎčen)
• Catalan: germinal (ca)
• Georgian: ჩანასახოვანი (čanasaxovani)
• Romanian: germinal (ro)
• Spanish: germinal (es)

Further reading

• “germinal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “germinal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• maligner, malinger

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒər.miˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒeɾ.miˈnal]

Adjective

germinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural germinals)

1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinals)

1. (historical) Germinal (the month)

French

Etymology

From Latin germin- (“sprout, bud”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.mi.nal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Homophones: germinale, germinales, germinals

Adjective

germinal (feminine germinale, masculine plural germinaux, feminine plural germinales)

1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinals)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• malingre

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French germinal.

Noun

germinal m (uncountable)

1. Germinal

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xeɾmiˈnal/ [xeɾ.miˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ger‧mi‧nal

Adjective

germinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural germinales)

1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinales)

1. Germinal

Further reading

• “germinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014