semper

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See also: semper-

Latin

Etymology

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

Adverb

semper (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 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, tree has foliage, ever the ground pastures.”
      (See Flora (mythology).)

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “always”): numquam

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin semper, whose first element is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

semper

  1. always

Derived terms

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