sempre

From Italian sempre.

• enPR: sem′-prā(′) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛm(ˌ)pɹeɪ/

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sempre (not comparable)

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

• Rempes, preems, semper-

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsem.pɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsem.pɾe]

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sempre

1. always

   Synonyms: tothora, tostemps

   Antonym: mai

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmpɾe/ [ˈs̺ɛm.pɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɛmpɾe
• Hyphenation: sem‧pre

sempre

1. always

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sempre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sempre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sempre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sempre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sempre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

sempre

1. always

   Me sempre oblivias to.

   I always forget that.

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.

• omnatempe

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

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

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛm.pre/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpre
• Hyphenation: sèm‧pre

sempre

1. always
2. (colloquial) still

   Synonym: ancora

   …sempre in garanzia? ― …still under guarantee?

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

• → English: sempre

• spreme, spremé

• sèmpre (Mistralian)

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

sempre

1. always

• tot lo temps

From Latin semper. Compare Italian sempre, Spanish siempre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̺ẽ.pɾe/

sempre

1. always (at all times)

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

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

• Hyphenation: sem‧pre

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sempre.

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