semper
Latin
Etymology
Category:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEMPERCategory:Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-#SEMPERFrom sem-per, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEMPER *sḗm (“one”), root of Latin semel (“once”) + -per (“throughout”). Analogous to semel + -perCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -per#SEMPER.[1][2] Cognates include Ancient Greek εἷς (heîs) and Sanskrit सकृत् (sa-kṛ́t)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SEMPER. Compare singulus. For similar compositions see paulisper, quantisper, tantisper.
Pronunciation
Adverb
semper (not comparable)Category:Latin lemmas#SEMPERCategory:Latin adverbs#SEMPERCategory:Latin uncomparable adverbs#SEMPERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SEMPERCategory:Pages with entries#SEMPERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEMPER
- always, ever, forever, at all times, on each occasion, ongoing, constant
- Spero ut pacem semper habeant.
- I hope that they always have peace.
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 175–176:
- [...] et erī semper lēnitās / verēbar quōrsum ēvāderet.
- [...] and my master’s constant mildness — I was worried what the end result might turn out to be.
- [...] et erī semper lēnitās / verēbar quōrsum ēvāderet.
- 8 CE, Ovidius, 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
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “always”): numquam
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: siempre
- Ligurian: sénpre
- Dalmatian: siampre, siampro, sianpro
- Emilian: sänper
- Friulian: simpri
- Istriot: senpro
- Italian: sempre
- → English: sempre
- Occitan: sempre
- Old 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
- Venetan: senpre, senper, senpro
- → English: semper-
References
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sem-, sim- (> Derivatives > semper)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 553
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “per (> Derivatives > semper)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 459-60
Further reading
- “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, 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 LatinCategory:Sardinian terms derived from Latin#SEMPER semper, whose first element is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Sardinian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEMPER *sḗm (“one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsemper/, [ˈsɛm.pɛ.ɾɛ̆]Category:Sardinian terms with IPA pronunciation#SEMPER
Adverb
semperCategory:Sardinian lemmas#SEMPERCategory:Sardinian adverbs#SEMPERCategory:Sardinian entries with incorrect language header#SEMPERCategory:Pages with entries#SEMPERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEMPER