semper
See also: semper-
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sem-per, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”), root of Latin semel (“once”) + -per (“throughout”). Analogous to semel + -per. Cognates include Ancient Greek εἷς (heîs) and Sanskrit सकृत् (sa-kṛ́t). Compare singulus. For similar compositions see paulisper, quantisper, tantisper.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈs̠ɛmpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈsɛmper]
Adverb edit
semper (not comparable)
- always, ever, forever, at all times, on each occasion
- Spero ut pacem semper habeant.
- I hope that they always have peace.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.207–208:
- ‘vērē fruor semper: semper nitidissimus annus,
arbor habet frondēs, pābula semper humus’- “I enjoy spring forever: always a year most beautiful, [every] tree has foliage, ever the ground [its] pastures.”
(See Flora (mythology).)
- “I enjoy spring forever: always a year most beautiful, [every] tree has foliage, ever the ground [its] pastures.”
- ‘vērē fruor semper: semper nitidissimus annus,
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “always”): numquam
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Asturian: siempre
- Ligurian: sénpre
- 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: sienpre, siempre
- Sardinian: semper (Limba Sarda Comuna), sèmpere, sèmpiri, sempre
- Sicilian: sempri, siempri
- Venetian: senpre, senper, senpro
- → English: semper-
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
From Latin semper, whose first element is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
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