semel

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛmɛl]

semel

1. second-person singular imperative of semlít

Borrowed from German Semmel.

semel m (invariable)

1. a light bread roll eaten dipped in café latte

• semellaio

From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥meh₁lom (“one time”), from *sem- (“together”) and *meh₁-lo- (“measure, time”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). See each for cognate words.

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

semel (not comparable)

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

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

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

• bis

• “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

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

semel m

1. alternative form of semen: butter