sempre
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
sempre (not comparable)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
sempre
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sempre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sempre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sempre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sempre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese sempre, from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation edit
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sempre
References edit
- “sempre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “sempre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “sempre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sempre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sempre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin semper; compare Catalan and Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
sempre
- always
- (colloquial) still
- Synonym: ancora
- …sempre in garanzia? ― …still under guarantee?
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.
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
- Hyphenation: sem‧pre
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.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sempre.
Coordinate terms edit
- (Frequency adverbs) nunca, raramente, incomumente, de vez em quando/às vezes/ocasionalmente, comumente, frequentemente, sempre