Word Origin Summary

Semper is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *sḗmProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• sempre

  Occitan · inherited from

• sempervirent

  Catalan · derived from

• sempre

  Galician · inherited from

• sianpro

  Dalmatian · inherited from

• sempre

  Catalan · inherited from

• Sempervivum

  Translingual · derived from

• senpre

  Venetian · derived from

• sienpre

  Old Spanish · inherited from

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