nudius
Latin
Etymology
From nunc (“now; today”) + diūs (“day (archaic nominative)”). Forming nunc diūs (tertius, etc.) est or "it is now the (third, etc.) day".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnuː.di.us/, [ˈnuːd̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnu.di.us/, [ˈnuːd̪ius]
Adverb
nūdius (not comparable)
- (with an ordinal number) (...−1) days ago; literally "it is now the ...th day since"
- Nudius tertius.
- Day before yesterday. (It is now the third day)
- Nudius quartus.
- Day before the day before yesterday; three days ago. (Not four. Latin day counting included both endpoints; if three days ago is the first day, it is now the fourth day.)
- Nudius tertius decimus.
- Twelve days ago.
- Nam ego Lemno advenio Athenas nudius tertius.
- Now I reach Athens from Lemnos the day before yesterday.
- Nudius sextus cui talentum mutuum dedi, reposcam.
- It is now the sixth day since I demanded back the borrowed talent whom I have given.
- Heia, nudius quintus natus quidem ille est.
- Why, indeed it is now the fifth day since he was born.
- Recordamini qui dies nudius tertius decimus fuerit.
- Recollect what a day it was twelve days ago.
- Heri et nudius tertius, quartus, quintus, sextus...
- Yesterday and the day before yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that.
- Nudius tertius dedi ad te epistulam longiorem.
- I gave you the longer letter the day before yesterday.
- Nudius tertius.
Quotations
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: nudiustertian
See also
References
- “nudius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nudius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nudius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nudius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- nudius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016