semper
See also: semper-
Latin
Etymology
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sem-per from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”), whence also Latin semel (“once”). Cognates include Ancient Greek εἷς (heîs) and Sanskrit सकृत् (sa-kṛ́t). For similar compositions see paulisper, quantisper, tantisper.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈs̠ɛmpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈsɛmper]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Adverb
semper (not comparable)
- always
- Spero ut pacem semper habeant.
- I hope that they may always have peace.
Antonyms
- (always): numquam
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: siampre, siampro, sianpro
- Friulian: simpri
- Istriot: senpro
- Italian: sempre
- → English: sempre
- Occitan: sempre
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: siempre
- Old French: sempres
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sempre
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: siempre
- Sardinian: semper (Limba Sarda Comuna), sèmpere, sèmpiri, sempre
- Sicilian: sempri, siempri
- Venetian: senpre, senper, senpro
- → English: semper-
References
- “semper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “semper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- semper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin semper, whose first element is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
semper
Derived terms
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