Sempiternal

Definition: Sempiternal

Sempiternal

Adjective

1. Having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth".

Date "sempiternal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Sempiternal \Sem`pi*ter"nal\, adjective. [Latin expression sempiternus, from semper always: compare to the French expression sempiternel.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sempiternal

Synonyms: dateless (adj), endless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Perpetuity	Adjective: perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever-flowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sempiternal

English words defined with "sempiternal": Sempiterne, Sempiternity. (references)

"Sempiternal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sempiternal" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "sempiternal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i përhershëm (chronic, confirmed, constant, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, immutable, lasting, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, settled). (various references)

Arabic		‏سرمدي (eternal, immortal, indissoluble, perennial, timeless, undying, unending). (various references)

Bulgarian		вечен (constant, continual, endless, eternal, everlasting, imperishable, incessant, indissoluble, interminable, never ending, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, timeless, undying, unfading, unperishing). (various references)

Czech		vìèný (enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, perpetual, timeless). (various references)

French		perpétuel, éternel. (various references)

German		immerwährend (eternal, perennial, perpetual, timeless). (various references)

Greek		αιώνιοσ (agelong, eternal, everlasting, forever, perpetual, timeless, undying). (various references)

Hungarian		örökkévaló (ageless, eternal, everlasting, holy one, never ending, perennial, perpetual). (various references)

Pig Latin		empiternalsay

Portuguese		sempiterno, eterno (ageless, eternal, everlasting, peregrinate, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending). (various references)

Romanian		veşnic (always, continual, continuous, endless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, inextinguishable, livelong, never-dying, perdurable, perennial, perennially, perpetual, perpetually, unceasing), etern (endless, eternal, everlasting, immortal, immortally, unending). (various references)

Russian		вечный (ageless, agelong, eternal, everlasting, imperishable, perdurable, perennial, timeless, undying). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		večit (eternal, everlasting, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, unbegun). (various references)

Spanish		sempiterno (everlasting). (various references)

Turkish		sonsuz (abiding, abysmal, boundless, dateless, endless, eternal, illimitable, immeasurable, immortal, indefinite, infinite, interminable, limitless, never ending, no end, no end of, timeless, undying, unending, without end), ebedi (amaranthine, endless, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, never ending, perdurable, perpetual, timeless, without end). (various references)

Ukranian		вічний (ageless, dateless, eternal, everlasting, perdurable, perpetual, timeless, unending). (various references)

Vietnamese		vĩnh cửu (abiding), mãi mãi (ad infinitum, agelong, always, everlasting, evermore, forever, keep, kept), bất diệt (deathless, everliving, immortal, immortally, never-dying, perennial, undying, unperishing), đời đời (ageless, agelong, deathless, eternal, eternally, everlasting, evermore). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sempiternal": sempiternally. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: planimeters.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: implanters, planimeter, reimplants, streamline.
	-2 letters: antimeres, antisleep, aperients, elaterins, enamelist, entailers, implanter, interlaps, intermale, lamenters, materiels, melanites, mislearnt, misrelate, nearliest, pearliest, pearlites, penalties, pistareen, reimplant, sparteine, spearmint, tapelines, terminals, tramlines, traplines, treenails, triplanes.
	-3 letters: ailments, alieners, aliments, antimere, aperient, arenites, arsenite, ateliers, earliest, elaterin, emeritas, emirates, empalers, empanels, emplanes, emptiers, enlister, ensample, entailer.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: sempiternally.
	+3 letters: presentimental.
	+4 letters: complementaries, experimentalism, experimentalist, impersonalities.
	+5 letters: compartmentalise, departmentalizes, experimentalisms, experimentalists, impregnabilities, microencapsulate, postexperimental, premillennialist, supernormalities.
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