sempervirent

English

Etymology

From Latin semper (“always”) + virēns, present participle of vireō (“be green”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛmpəˈvaɪɹənt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /sɛmpɚˈvaɪɹənt/

Adjective

sempervirent (not comparable)

Evergreen.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 408:
  A boxwood-lined path, presided over by a nostalgic-looking sempervirent sequoia (which American visitor mistook for a ‘Lebanese cedar’ – if they remarked it at all) took them to the absurdly misnamed rue du Mûrier […]

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