sempre
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian sempre (“always, still”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: sem′-prā(′) IPA(key): /ˈsɛm(ˌ)pɹeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adverb
[edit]sempre (not comparable)
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈse̞m.pɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈsem.pɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsem.pɾe]
Audio (Catalonia): (file)
Adverb
[edit]sempre
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sempre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “sempre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “sempre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “sempre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese sempre, from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sempre
References
[edit]- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sempre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sempre”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sempre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sempre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sempre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian sempre, Spanish siempre, from Latin semper.
Adverb
[edit]sempre
- always
- Me sempre oblivias to.
- I always forget that.
Usage notes
[edit]Though sempre is an official word and is used more often than omnatempe (which follows the Ido rules of constructing correlatives), omnatempe is still valid and understood.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- omnu (“everyone”)
- omno (“everything, all”)
- omna (“all, every”)
- omni (“all, everybody”)
- omnaloke (“everywhere”)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin semper; compare Catalan and Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sempre
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: sempre
Anagrams
[edit]Occitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- sèmpre (Mistralian)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sempre
Synonyms
[edit]Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sempre
- always (at all times)
Descendants
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese sempre, from Latin semper; compare Catalan sempre and Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Adverb
[edit]sempre (not comparable)
- always (at all times)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sempre
- A terra sempre gira e sempre girará em torno do sol.
- Earth always spins and will always spin around the sun.
- always (regularly at stated intervals)
- Synonym: regularmente
- Eu sempre como carne no almoço.
- I always eat meat at lunch.
- 2008, Paulo F. Vargas, É lícito dar o dízimo e guardar o sábado, Clube de Autores, page 16:
- O problema é que nestas horas sempre aparece aquele amigo da onça que só quer ver a desgraça alheia.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2009, Elben M. Lenz César [org.], Devocionais para todas as estações, Editora Ultimato, →ISBN, page 90:
- Você já ouviu a expressão “amigo do rei”? Quase sempre é utilizada em sentido negativo, como crítica a pessoas que se aproveitam de sua amizade com governantes e líderes políticos para se enriquecerem ilicitamente. Mas nem toda amizade com o rei, ou qualquer outro dirigente, é marcada pela corrupção.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Frequency adverbs) nunca, raramente, incomumente, de vez em quando/às vezes/ocasionalmente, comumente, frequentemente, sempre
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sempre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “sempre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “sempre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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