semper

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈs̠ɛmpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsem.per/, [ˈsɛmper]

semper (not comparable)

1. always, ever, forever, at all times, on each occasion

   Spero ut pacem semper habeant.

   I hope that they always have peace.

   • 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, [every] tree has foliage, ever the ground [its] pastures.”
     (See Flora (mythology).)

• aeternō

• (antonym(s) of “always”): numquam

• “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
    

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsemper/, [ˈsɛm.pɛ.ɾɛ̆]

semper

1. always

• semper chi