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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
semel
- second-person singular imperative of semlít
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Semmel.
Noun
semel m (invariable)
- a light bread roll eaten dipped in café latte
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥meh₁lom (“one time”), from *sem- (“together”) and *meh₁-lo- (“measure, time”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). See each for cognate words.
Pronunciation
Adverb
semel (not comparable)
- once, a single time
- once and for all
Derived terms
See also
References
- “semel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “semel”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- semel in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- semel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- more than once; repeatedly: semel atque iterum; iterum ac saepius; identidem; etiam atque etiam
- to say once for all: ut semel or in perpetuum dicam
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Pokorny *sem
Maltese
Pronunciation
Noun
semel m
- Alternative form of semen: butter