subinde

Forms

subinde (not comparable)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from sub (“under; just after”) and inde (“from there; then”).^[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's first source is Caelius, about 50 BC.^[3] Lewis and Short find it only from the Augustan period on, and the OLD's first example is Horace's Epistles: first be glad, then (subinde) remember to whisper this advice into his ear.^[4][2]

Semantic evolution

Its first sense is immediately or shortly afterwards, thereupon, and Curtius uses it of “from then on”.^[2] Horace already has it in the sense “now and again, repeatedly”, which became common, and Pliny the Younger uses it of things placed at intervals.^[2][1] Church Latin glosses it “immediately”.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 50 BC – Caelius.^[3]
• 65–8 BC – Horace in the senses “then” and “repeatedly”.^[2][3]
• 1st century AD – Curtius in the sense “from then on”.^[2]

Meanings

Adverb

1. Immediately afterwards, thereupon, forthwith; from then on.^[2][1][5]
2. Now and again, repeatedly, constantly; at intervals.^[2][1]

Related words

• sub
• inde

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson