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Germinal
//ˈdʒɜː(ɹ)mɪnəl// adj, name
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Relating to spring
- 2 Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
- 3 Relating to a plant ovary.
- 4 Serving as a point of origin; formative. figuratively
"My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera."
- 5 Highly influential; seminal. figuratively
"This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation."
Adjective
- 1 containing seeds of later development wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, starting on the date of the vernal equinox (March 21 or 22) and ending on April 19 or 20. historical
Noun
- 1 seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen. From earlier *genmen via dissimilation, from Proto-Italic *genamen, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring”, “seed”), from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”, “to give birth”). Compare with genimen.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French germinal, from Latin germen (“sprout, bud”) + -al.
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