[extropy-chat] Essay on Physical Immortality

xllb at rogers.com xllb at rogers.com
Sun Jan 4 21:49:13 UTC 2004


Robert J. Bradbury wrote
> Hi,
> 
> > How about "sempiternal"?
> 
> Could you break it down for the list -- my books on Greek
> terms (if it is derived from Greek) aren't good enough
> to parse it.
> 
> Thanks,
> R.

sem·pi·ter·nal

Enduring forever; eternal.

[Middle English, from Old French sempiternel, from Late Latin sempitern lis, from Latin sempiternus : semper, always; see sem-1 in Indo-European Roots + aeternus, eternal; see aiw- in Indo-European Roots.]

from dictionary.com

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xllb


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