sempiternus

From semper. Compare with similarly formed aeternus, hesternus, externus and all of its class.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛm.pɪˈtɛr.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sem.piˈt̪ɛr.nus]

sempiternus (feminine sempiterna, neuter sempiternum); first/second-declension adjective

1. everlasting, perpetual, eternal, continual
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 959–961:

     PAMPHILUS: Ego deōrum vītam proptereā sempiternam esse arbitror / quod voluptātēs eōrum propriae sunt; nam mihi immortālitās / parta est, sī nūlla aegritūdō huic gaudiō intercesserit.

     PAMPHILUS: That’s why I believe the life of gods to be eternal — because their own pleasures are permanent. For [this same reason], my immortality has been secured — if no grief interferes with this joy.

First/second-declension adjective.

• sempiternitās

• Catalan: sempitern
• → English: sempitern
• Italian: sempiterno
• Portuguese: sempiterno
• Spanish: sempiterno

• “sempiternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sempiternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sempiternus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem sempiternae gloriae commendare
    
  • to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1)