postridie Latin · revision 31548

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ Plautus also has an older ''postrīduō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It grew together from the locative ⟨*postrī⟩ of [[posterus|t=following]] and ⟨diē⟩, locative of [[diēs|t=day]], like [[cottīdiē]] and [[merīdiē]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it under ⟨diēs⟩, which he takes from the accusative [[ine-pro|*di(i̯)eu-m|t=god of the sky, sky]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who also has the form ''postrīduō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “on the following day”, often with a named day or event: with the accusative, as in calendars and in Varro, who says the days after the Kalends, Nones and Ides were called black days; with the genitive, as Cicero's “the day after that day”; or with ''quam'', “the day after”, from Cato on.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for “on the next day”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, also as ''postrīduō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato with the genitive and with ''quam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro with the accusative of a named day.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # On the following day, the next day.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # On the day after a named day or event, with the accusative, the genitive or ''quam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[prīdiē]]

+ * [[posterus]]

+ * [[diēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}