semel

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-meh₁lom (“one time”), from *sem- (“together”) and *meh₁-lo- (“measure, time”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). See each for cognate words.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.mel/, [ˈs̠ɛmɛɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.mel/, [ˈsɛːmel]

Adverb

semel (not comparable)

1. once, a single time

Derived terms

• semel equis satis
• semel furibundus, semper furibundus praesūmitur
• semel in diē
• semel prō semper

See also

• bis

References

• “semel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semel”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semel in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• semel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • more than once; repeatedly: semel atque iterum; iterum ac saepius; identidem; etiam atque etiam
    
  • to say once for all: ut semel or in perpetuum dicam
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny *sem