Word of the Day: 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.
USAGE: Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2000 for his seminal observation that it was in the action of the synapses between cells that memory existed, not in the cells themselves, and that a molecule called cyclic AMP was what allowed cells to retain memory over the long term. —Michael Greenberg, New York Review of Books, 4 Dec. 2008
SYNONYMS: critical, crucial, fundamental, important, influential, original, primary
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PRONUNCIATION: [sem-uh-nuhl]
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.
USAGE: Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2000 for his seminal observation that it was in the action of the synapses between cells that memory existed, not in the cells themselves, and that a molecule called cyclic AMP was what allowed cells to retain memory over the long term. —Michael Greenberg, New York Review of Books, 4 Dec. 2008
SYNONYMS: critical, crucial, fundamental, important, influential, original, primary
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