interdiu Latin · revision 32419

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *di-eu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛr.di.uː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛr.di.u]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ The older form ''interdius'' is in Plautus, Cato and Varro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL also records ''interdie''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inter|diū|t1=between, during|t2=by day]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Nussbaum, whom de Vaan follows, takes it as two originally independent adverbs, "in the meantime" and "by day".^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan explains [[m|la|diū]] as the old locative of the word for "day", going back to [[itc-pro|*di(j)ou]] and [[ine-pro|*di-eu-|t=day; sky]]; the older [[m|la|dius]] may continue the genitive "of the day".^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Cato, who says that dogs should be shut in during the day so that they are fiercer at night.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means by day, in the daytime, usually in contrast with [[noctu|alt=noctū]], by night.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The form interdius is earlier, in Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short note that Cicero does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus explains it from dium, the day, and calls noctū its opposite.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the form interdius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses interdiū of dogs shut in by day.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro still writes interdius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # By day, in the [[m|en|daytime]], during [[m|en|daylight]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interdiānus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}