pridem

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Latin

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Etymology

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From unattested *prīs, zero grade of prius (compare magis, and maius) and -dem. The same adverb *prīs is also found in prīstinus and prīscus.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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prīdem (not comparable)

  1. long ago, long since
    • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 283:
      probum tē et frūgi hominem jam prīdem esse arbitror.
    • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 303:
      jam prīdem vidētur factum, heri quod hominēs quattuor
      in sopōrem collocāstis nūdōs.
    • 46 BCE, Cicero, Brutus 41:
      fuit enim rēgnante jam Graeciā, nostrā autem cīvitāte nōn ita prīdem dominātū rēgiō līberātā.
    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.330:
      vērum, ut opīnor, habet novitātem summa recensque
      nātūra est mundī neque prīdem exōrdia cēpit.
  2. previously, formerly

Usage notes

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  • Often used together with jam

References

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  • pridem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pridem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pridem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23)
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “prīdem”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 361
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prior”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489