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(adjective) : sēmestris, e, semi-mensis
* Semi-monthly: luna,i. e. the full moon,App. M. 11, p. 258, 29: species (lunae),Amm. 20, 3, 1; cf. semestrium.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

Lewis Short

(adjective) : sēmestris, e, sex-mensis.
* Of six months, half-yearly, semi-annual: dies, nox, lasting six months (far in the north), Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5: regnum,Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7: imperium,Caes. B. C. 1, 9: dux,Liv. 21, 43, 15: consulatus,Suet. Ner. 14: tribunatus (militaris),Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; hence also, aurum, the ring of the tribunes (worn for six months): semestri vatum digitos circumligat auro,Juv. 7, 89; cf. also, consilia,Suet. Aug. 35: spatium,Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 280: filius,six months old,id. 11, 51, 112, § 270; so, leones,id. 8, 16, 17, § 45; cf. vita,id. 8, 39, 60, § 141: aves, hirundines,id. 10, 25, 36, § 73.
* Plur. subst.: sē-mestrĭa, ium, n., the semi-annual collection of imperial ordinances, Dig. 2, 14, 46; 18, 7, 10fin.; 29, 2, 12.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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