semola, samolella

[SEMOLINA.] sěm-o-li-nạ, s. [Ital. semolino, semolella.] Foods: A farinaceous food consisting of the fine Semitic race. IMG:content-1202.png:[blocks in formation] Sẽ mitic, a . [Eng. Semit(e); -ic.] Pertaining or relating to Shem or his descendants; pertaining to the Hebrew race, or any of those kindred to it, as the ancient Phoenicians, the Arabians, and the A yrians. Semitic-languages, s. pl . The most important group of languages, after the Indo-European. It is marked by the tri literality of the roots and their inflection by internal change, by variation of vowel, "The name 'Semitic-languages' is used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely, Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, A yrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Amharic). The name which was introduced by Eichhorn ( Einleit , in das A. T. (ed. 2d), i. 45) is derived from the fact that most nations which speak or spoke these languages are descended, according to Genesis, from Shem, son of Noah." Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), xxi. 641.