semel

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛmɛl]

Verb

semel

1. second-person singular imperative of semlít

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Semmel.

Noun

semel m (invariable)

1. a light bread roll eaten dipped in café latte

Derived terms

• semellaio

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		10[a], [b]
		I 1	2  →	10  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: ūnus     Ordinal: prīmus     Adverbial: semel     Proportional: simplus     Multiplier: simplex     Distributive: singulus, prīvus     Collective: ūniō     Fractional: integer

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-meh₁lom (“one time”, literally “one-measure”), from *sem- (“together, whole, one”) and *meh₁-lo- (“measure, time”) (compare Proto-Germanic *mēlą), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). See each for cognate words. However, this is uncertain and would involve some phonetic irregularity. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.mɛɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.mel]

Adverb

semel (not comparable)

1. once, a single time
2. once and for all
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.4–6:

     Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt:
     nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx,
     nox est perpetua ūna dormienda.

     Suns are able to set and to return: for us, when the brief light sets once and for all, there is one perpetual night to sleep.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *insemel (see there for further descendants)

See also

• bis

References

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “semel”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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

Maltese

Root
s-m-n
10 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.mɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛmɛl

Noun

semel m

1. alternative form of semen: butter