interdum Latin · revision 18111

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪnˈtɛr.dũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [inˈtɛr.dum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|inter|dum|t1=between|t2=while]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who makes Jupiter say ''ego sum ille Amphitruō … quī interdum fīō Iuppiter, quandō lubet'', “I am that Amphitryon who now and then becomes Jupiter, whenever I like”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Interdum'' is “at times, now and then, occasionally”, like ''nōnnumquam'' (Cicero: ''interdum cursus est in ōrātiōne incitātior, interdum moderāta ingressiō'', “in a speech there is sometimes a swifter pace, sometimes a measured step”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In Silius and later it can also mean “meanwhile, for the time being”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “sometimes, occasionally, now and then”,^(Stelten 1995) and in Medieval Latin “meanwhile” is common.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''quī interdum fīō Iuppiter''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''interdum cursus est in ōrātiōne incitātior''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius uses it in the sense “meanwhile”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|sometimes]], at times, now and then, [[m|en|occasionally]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|meanwhile]], in the meantime; for the time being.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interduātim]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[inter]]

+ * [[dum]]

+ * [[interim]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}