Where does “sempreviva” come from?
sempreviva (Catalan) comes from Catalan sempre, from Latin semper, from Latin -per, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
sempreviva (Catalan): everlasting any of several species of flowering plants of the genus
Definitions
- everlasting any of several species of flowering plants of the genus
Ancestry of “sempreviva”, step by step
sempreviva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan sempre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | sempre | always |
| 2 | Latin | semper | always, ever |
| 3 | Latin | -per | Suffix used in the formation of adverbs from... |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |