semel

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Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

semel

  1. second-person singular imperative of semlít

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Semmel.

Noun

semel m (invariable)

  1. a light bread roll eaten dipped in café latte

Derived terms

Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
10[a], [b]
I
1
2  →  10  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: ūnus
    Ordinal: prīmus
    Adverbial: semel
    Multiplier: simplex, simplus
    Distributive: singulus
    Collective: ūniō
    Fractional: integer

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)

  1. once, a single time
  2. 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

Root
s-m-n
10 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

semel m

  1. Alternative form of semen: butter