From para and the base of semaino; side-marked, i.e. Labelled (with a badge (figure-head) of a ship) -- sign.
see GREEK para
see GREEK semaino
1. marked falsely, spurious, counterfeit; as coin.
2. marked beside or on the margin; so of noteworthy words, which the reader of a book marks on the margin hence,
3. universally, noted, marked, conspicuous, remarkable (of persons, in a bad sense, notorious); marked with a sign: ἐν πλοίῳ παρασήμῳ Διοσκωυροις, in a ship marked with the image or figure of the Dioscuri, Acts 28:11 (cf. B. D. under the word