olim
See also: Olim
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.lim/
Audio (file)
Noun
Further reading
- “olim”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈolim/
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- olima (“erstwhile, former, ancient”)
- olima tempo (“in days of old”)
Latin
Etymology
For ōle, olle, ōlus, ollus, archaic forms of ille, with locative ending -im, = illō tempore.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.lim/, [ˈoːlʲɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.lim/, [ˈɔːlim]
Adverb
ōlim (not comparable)
- at that time
- (used at the beginnings of fairytales) once upon a time
- (chiefly poetic) one day, once, at some (future) time
- often, for some time
Synonyms
- (once): quondam
Related terms
Latin correlatives (edit)
References
- “olim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “olim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- olim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- olim in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Latvian
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