Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1729.semel on page 1729
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semel once
semel is a Latin Adverb that primarily means once.
Definitions for semel
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
a single time, once, once and for all, simultaneously
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
A single time, once. (b) once (and no more), just once. (c) non ~ sed saepe or sim, not just once, but frequently, etc.; (also, without sed) not once, i.e. more than once, several times. (d) ~aut iterum, once or twice, i.e. not very often. (e) ~ et saepius (~ saepius), more often than once, time and time again. (f) ~atque iterum, ~ iterumque, once and again, i.e. several times running, repeatedly; also, twice only.
- 2
(in an enumeration of occasions, foll. by iterum, tertio, etc.) Once, the first time.
Sentences with semel
Latin to English
Nobi cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.Compare For us when once our brief light has set, one eternal night must be slept.
Percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est, nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures, et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.Compare Fly from a questioner; he is sure to be a blabber also. Open ears never keep faithfully the secrets whispered to them; and meanwhile a word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back.
Id in primis cavere oportebit, ne studia, qui amare nondum potest, oderit et amaritudinem semel perceptum etiam ultra rudes annos reformidet. Lusus hic sit.Compare Above all things we must take care that the child, who is not yet old enough to love his studies, does not come to hate and dread the bitterness which he has once tasted, even when the years of infancy are left behind. His studies must be made an amusement.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 214.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1729.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "semel (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/semel.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 214.semel on page 214
