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heri

yesterday

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 9 · 9.16/10k
Hecyra 6 · 6.66/10k
Stichus 3 · 4.83/10k
Eunuchus 4 · 3.69/10k
Mercator 3 · 3.5/10k
Captivi 3 · 3.47/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Lucullus 6 · 3.33/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Miles Gloriosus 4 · 3.15/10k
Andria 3 · 3.05/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. heri — de Vaan

heri 'yesterday' [adv.] (Naev-4^also hereTtr.+, lx AerfTer.) j Derivatives: hesternus Of yesterday' (P1.+). Pit. *xes-L PIE *gh-di-es 'yesterday', *ghdi-es-tro- 'of yesterday', IE cognates: Olr. inde9 MW doe, OCo. doy 'yesterday' < PCI. *ydes(i?); Skt. hyas, Bal. zi, zik, Oss. znon/cezince < Ilr. *fias9 Gr. χΰές, Alb. dje, OIc. igcer 'yesterday', Go. gistra-dagis 'tomorrow', OE giestron, OHG gesteron 'yesterday' < … — [de Vaan, s.v. heri, p. 297]

2. hĕri — Lewis & Short

hĕri or hĕre (in here neque e plane neque i auditur,

Quint. 1, 4, 7:

I here nunc e littera terminamus: at veterum comicorum adhuc libris invenio: Heri ad me venit, quod idem in epistulis Augusti, quas sua manu scripsit aut emendavit, deprehenditur, id. 1, 7, 22; cf. Charis. p. 180 P.; Prisc. p. 1011 ib.; v. esp. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 685), adv. for hesi; cf. hes in hesternus; v. the letter R; kindred with Sanscr. hyas; Goth. gis-tra; Germ. gestern; Engl. yesterday; Gr. xqe/s, orig. xes, yesterday.

I Lit.

(a) Form heri (perh. only so in Cic.): Septembris heri Calendae, hodie ater dies, Afran. ap. Non. 73, 33; cf.: hoc heri effecit: hodie autem, etc., Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1 (al. here): ubi est hodie, quae Lyra fulsit heri? Ov. F. 2, 76: heri jam edixeram omnibus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 15: quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi? Ter. And. 4, 4, 29: heri vesperi apud me Hirtius fuit, Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 1: heri vesperi, id. Att. 13, 47, 2; 15, 11, 4: ut heri dicebam, id. Rep. 3, 31 fin.; cf.: cum heri ipsi dixeris, te, etc., id. ib. 3, 21: heri, Ter. And. 1, 1, 58; id. Eun. 1, 2, 3; 89; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 8; id. Hec. 1, 2, 115; id. Phorm. 1, 1, 2; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 180 et saep.—

(b) Form here (a few times in Plaut., once in Cic., and after the Aug. per. most freq.): hoc here effecit, Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1: res hodie minor est, here quam fuit, ac eadem cras, etc., Juv. 3, 23: here venisti mediā nocte, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 16; id. Truc. 2, 6, 28; id. Mil. 1, 1, 59: mihi quaerenti convivam dictus here illic De medio potare die, Hor. S. 2, 8, 2: hic here Phrixeae vellera pressit ovis, Ov. F. 3, 852: dura, anime, dura, here fortior fuisti, Gallio ap. Quint. 9, 2, 91; Mart. 1, 44, 2; 3, 12, 2; 4, 7, 5.—

II Transf., of time just past, a short time ago, lately (very rare): Papias leges heri Severus exclusit, Tert. Apol. 4; Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2: sordebant tibi villicae, Concubine, hodie atque heri, Nunc, etc., but a short time ago, the other day (an imitation of the Gr. xqe\s kai\ prw/hn), Cat. 61, 133; Prop. 3, 15, 1.

3. heri — Walde–Hofmann

heri, hera (vgl. sibi sibé usw., Sommer Hb.? 149, Lindsay-Nohl 454f., Muller Ait. W. 130; anders Kent Lg. 6, 315) „gestern“ (seit Naev., rom.; hesternus seit Plaut, Adv. -ó [sc. die; vgl. erdstinó] seit Sisenna): aus *jhes(i) (- sekundär nach rürt usw.) zu ai. hydh, av. zyO, pers. di „gestern“; gr. y9€c, éy9ec „gestern“, y9iZd, XBıZds „gestrig® (-ı- statt -e- nach mpwWi-Za „am Vortag"?, Güntert Reimw. 118, Brugmann … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. heri, p. 674]

4. heri — Walde–Hofmann

heri, heries, heritu I 658 heris — heris I 658, II 743 holtu 14 homonus I 655 hondra I 664, 698 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. heri, p. 1780]

In the wild

6 of 116 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. heri (scan pp. 297-298; entry #755).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. heri (scan pp. 674-675; entry #1309). Root candidates: *gez-, *gestro-, *gestra-.

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