The corpus record — Latin

iam

now, already

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 4 · 233.92/10k
Carmina Omnia 4 · 156.25/10k
Carmen Saeculare 4 · 129.45/10k
Praefatio 3 · 128.21/10k
Argonautica 356 · 95.77/10k
Achilleis 65 · 90.23/10k
De Pallio 29 · 84.62/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 22 · 84.19/10k
In Eutropium 60 · 83.53/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 34 · 81.75/10k
Mercator 67 · 78.23/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 17 · 77.73/10k

Densest 12 of 363 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

iam — de Vaan

iam 'now, already' [adv.] (Lex XII, Andr.+) PIE *hji-h2-m [ace] 'this'. IE cognates: see s.v. is. Probably *iam. Since the meaning of the adverbs in *-<5m (acc.sg.f.) was 'as far as, in respect of, *iam meant 'as far as this is concerned' > 'now'. Possibly, *iam is a remake of ΡΪΕ acc.sg. *Tm 'he, she', with *-am from other inflected pronouns (quam etc,)' Later, the form was replaced by earn. Bibl.: WH I: 668, EM … — [de Vaan, s.v. iam, p. 307]

In the wild

6 of 17,155 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. iam (scan pp. 307-308; entry #792). Root candidates: *yauri-, *ienater-, *ieniter-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. iam (scan p. 328; entry #5187).

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