semel

From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-meh₁lom (“one time”), from *sem- (“together”) and *meh₁-lo- (“measure, time”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). See each for cognate words.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.mel/, [ˈsɛ.mɛɫ]

semel (not comparable)

1. once, a single time

• semel equis satis
• semel furibundus, semper furibundus praesūmitur
• semel in diē
• semel prō semper

• bis

• 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, 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