aliquando Latin · revision 17956

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [a.lɪˈkʷan.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.liˈkʷan.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliquandō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from the indefinite prefix [[m|la|ali-]] (of [[aliquis]], related to [[alius]]) and [[quandō]] “when”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Corssen took the ending of ⟨quandō⟩ to be an old word for “day”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''aliquandō ōsculandō meliust, uxor, pausam fierī'', “it's better, wife, to stop kissing at last”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler cites it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Aliquandō'' is an indefinite time: “at some time or other”, “ever” (after ''sī''), “once, formerly” in the past and “some day” in the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means “sometimes, occasionally”, and, as in Plautus, “at last, eventually”, or in commands “now at last”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Döderlein ranks the words for “sometimes”: ''[[nōnnumquam]]'', near to “often”, and ''[[interdum]]'', “at times”, as opposed to “frequently”.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “at last, at times, at any time, heretofore”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''aliquandō ōsculandō meliust … pausam fierī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''nōn dēspērō fore aliquem aliquandō'', “I do not despair that there will one day be someone”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome's Vulgate uses it in the Psalms and the Epistles.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # At some time, at any time, [[m|en|ever]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Once, formerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Some day (in the future).^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|sometimes]], occasionally.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # At last, finally; now at last.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quandō]]

+ * [[aliquis]]

+ * [[aliquantō]]

+ * [[interdum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}