pridie Latin · revision 31368

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pr(e)i, ine-pro *di-eu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpriː.di.eː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpriː.di.e]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ Cicero abbreviates it ''pr.'' and ''prid.''^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from an old adverb ⟨*prī⟩ “before” and [[m|la|diēs|t=day]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) the TLL compares German [[m|de|Vortag|t=day before]] and notes that the opposite [[m|la|postrīdiē|t=the day after]] contains the locative ⟨posterī⟩.^(TLL) De Vaan derives the adverb behind [[m|la|prior|t=former]] from [[ine-pro|*pr(e)i|t=before]], attested by Paulus' abridgement of Festus as ⟨pri⟩ “before”, cognate with [[grc|πρίν|tr=prín|t=before]], and ⟨diēs⟩ from [[itc-pro|*diē-]] and [[ine-pro|*di-eu-|t=clear sky]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “if he had been born the day before the other” in the ''Miles gloriosus'';^(OLD 2012) Köbler also gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is on the day before, opposite to ''postrīdiē'', and with ''quam'' the day before something happened, or more loosely in the time before.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With an accusative it is used above all in dates, as Cicero's “Philotimus came to Rhodes the day before that day” and Velleius' “the day before his birthday”, and with a genitive, as Cicero's and Caesar's ''prīdiē eius diēī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “yesterday, on the day before”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin ''prīdiē'', also in a plural ''prīdiās'', is the eve of a feast, a vigil.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being born a day earlier.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in dates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar: ''prīdiē eius diēī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of the day before a plot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # On the day before;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''prīdiē quam'', the day before; in the time before.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(with accusative or genitive)'' On the day before (a date).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, as a noun)'' The [[m|en|eve]] of a feast, a [[m|en|vigil]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prīdiānus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[postrīdiē]]

+ * [[diēs]]

+ * [[prīdem]]

+ * [[prior]]

+ * [[hodiē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}