quadriduum Latin · revision 34011

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷaˈdriː.du.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷaˈdriː.du.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quadrīduum''' ''n'' (genitive quadrīduī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''quatrīduum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The second syllable is apparently long on the analogy of ''bīduum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quadri-|*diuom|t1=four|t2=day]], a formation like [[m|la|bīduum|t=two days]] and [[m|la|trīduum|t=three days]] from the stem of [[m|la|diēs|t=day]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces that stem to [[itc-pro|*-diwo-|t=of the day]] and [[ine-pro|*di-eu-|t=day; sky]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Persa'' has a promise to repay money at once, within three or four days.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a space of four days.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the ablative it means within four days, ''quadrīduō ante'' and ''quadrīduō post'' four days before and after, or for four days:^(OLD 2012) Cicero mentions a letter received four days earlier and discussions held over four days, and Curtius a halt of four days in one place.^(OLD 2012) Cato, Livy and Curtius use it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of repaying in three or four days.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a letter four days old.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius of a four-day halt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A space of four days.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(ablative)'' Within four days;^(OLD 2012) ''quadrīduō ante'', ''quadrīduō post'', four days before, after; for four days.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[quadrīduānus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bīduum]]

+ * [[trīduum]]

+ * [[diēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}