semper

sem-per from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”), whence also Latin semel (“once”). Cognates include Ancient Greek εἷς (heîs) and Sanskrit सकृत् (sa-kṛ́t). For similar compositions see paulisper, quantisper, tantisper.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈsɛm.pɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsem.per/

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semper (not comparable)

1. always

   Spero ut pacem semper habeant.

   I hope that they may always have peace.

• (always): numquam

• Dalmatian: siampre, siampro, sianpro
• Friulian: simpri
• Istriot: senpro
• Italian: sempre
  • → English: sempre
• Occitan: sempre
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: siempre
• Old French: sempres
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: siempre
  • Mirandese: siempre
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: sempre
  • Occitan: sempre
• Old Portuguese: sempre
  • Fala: sempris
  • Galician: sempre
  • Portuguese: sempre
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: siempre
• Sardinian: sèmper, sèmpere, sèmpiri, sempre
• Sicilian: sempri, siempri
• Venetian: senpre, senper, senpro
• → English: semper-

• 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