semelfactive

The story

1. Latin · derived fromsemel“once, a single time”
2. New Latin · learned borrowing fromsemelfactīvus
3. English todaysemelfactive

Learned borrowing from New Latin semelfactīvus, from to Latin semel (“once, a single time”) + factum (“event, occurrence”) + adjectival suffix -īvus.

Words from the same roots