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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la cum}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkʷɔn.dãː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkʷɔn.dam]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''quondam''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)
+ Inscriptions spell it ''condam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed from ⟨quom⟩, the older form of [[m|la|cum|t=when]], and the demonstrative ending [[m|la|-dam]] of [[quīdam]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Köbler compares the particle [[ine-pro|*de-]].^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''vērum tempestās, meminī, quondam fuit, cum …'', “but there was a time once, I remember, when …”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ ''Quondam'' is “once, formerly”, as opposed to now, and almost as an adjective “former, that once was”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In poetry it looks forward, “one day, in time to come” (Virgil: no Roman soil will ever boast so much of any child ''quondam'').^(OLD 2012) In similes it is “at times, on occasion” (Lucretius: ''carbasus ut quondam … dat crepitum'', “as an awning sometimes cracks”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “once, formerly, at a certain time”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin ''quondam'' or ''condam'' is used as an indeclinable adjective, “the late, deceased”.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''tempestās … quondam fuit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius: ''carbasus ut quondam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * Middle Ages – Used as an adjective, “the late”.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # Once, [[m|en|formerly]], at one time.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # One day, in time to come.^(OLD 2012)
+ # At times, sometimes.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ===Adjective===
+ # ''(Medieval Latin, indeclinable)'' The late, [[m|en|deceased]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[cum]]
+ * [[quīdam]]
+ * [[ōlim]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}