sempre

English

Etymology

Italian sempre

Adverb

sempre (not comparable)

1. (music, as a qualifier) always, still; maintaining the same style

Anagrams

• Rempes, preems, semper-

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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Adverb

sempre

1. always

   Synonyms: tothora, tostemps

   Antonym: mai

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sempre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sempre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sempre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sempre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sempre, from Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adverb

sempre

1. always

References

• “sempre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sempre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sempre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sempre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sempre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sempre, Spanish siempre, from Latin semper.

Adverb

sempre

1. always

   Me sempre oblivias to.

   I always forget that.

Usage notes

Though sempre is an official word and is used more often than omnatempe (which follows the Ido rules of constructing correlatives), omnatempe is still valid and understood.

Synonyms

• omnatempe

Related terms

• omnu (“everyone”)
• omno (“everything, all”)
• omna (“all, every”)
• omni (“all, everybody”)
• omnaloke (“everywhere”)

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin semper; compare Catalan and Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛm.pre/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpre
• Hyphenation: sèm‧pre

Adverb

sempre

1. always
2. (colloquial) still

   Synonym: ancora

   …sempre in garanzia? ― …still under guarantee?

Derived terms

• per sempre
• sempre dritto / sempre diritto
• sempreverde
• semprevivo

Descendants

• → English: sempre

Anagrams

• spreme, spremé

Occitan

Alternative forms

• sèmpre (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Portuguese sempre, Spanish siempre.

Adverb

sempre

1. always

Synonyms

• tot lo temps

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Spanish siempre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̺ẽ.pɾe/

Adverb

sempre

1. always (at all times)

Descendants

• Fala: sempris
• Galician: sempre
• Portuguese: sempre

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sempre, from Latin semper; compare Catalan sempre and Spanish siempre.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sem‧pre

Adverb

sempre (not comparable)

2. always (at all times)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sempre

   A terra sempre gira e sempre girará em torno do sol.

   Earth always spins and will always spin around the sun.

4. always (regularly at stated intervals)

   Synonym: regularmente

   Eu sempre como carne no almoço.

   I always eat meat at lunch.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sempre.

Coordinate terms

• (Frequency adverbs) nunca, raramente, incomumente, de vez em quando/às vezes/ocasionalmente, comumente, frequentemente, sempre

Derived terms