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Latin
Etymology
From unattested *prīs, zero grade of prius (compare magis, and maius) and -dem. The same adverb *prīs is also found in prīstinus and prīscus.
Pronunciation
Adverb
prīdem (not comparable)
- long ago, long since
- previously, formerly
Usage notes
- Often used together with iam
References
- “pridem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pridem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pridem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23)
- Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “prīdem”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 361
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prior”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489