quamdiu
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷan.di.uː/, [ˈkʷän̪d̪iuː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwan.di.u/, [ˈkwän̪d̪iu]
Adverb
- how long
- Synonym: quousque
- Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle CI
- Quam bene vivas, non quamdiu.
- How well you live, not how long.
- Quam bene vivas, non quamdiu.
- as long as, until, during
References
- “quamdiu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quamdiu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quamdiu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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