The corpus record — Latin

interdum

interdum · adv

sometimes

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 4 · 51.68/10k
De Medicina 225 · 21.95/10k
Topica 6 · 8.76/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Divus Augustus 9 · 6.71/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Divus Claudius 4 · 6.26/10k
Academica 3 · 6.16/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Letters 35 · 5.4/10k
C. Caligula 4 · 5.24/10k

Densest 12 of 151 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

inter-dum — Lewis & Short

inter-dum, adv.,

I sometimes, occasionally, now and then, = nonnumquam: interdum fio Juppiter, quando lubet, Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 4: interdum cursus est in oratione incitatior, interdum moderata ingressio, Cic. Or. 59: modo-interdum, Suet. Calig. 43: modo-modo-interdum, id. Ner. 49.—

II I. q. per aliquod tempus, for some time (post-Aug.): acribus custodiis domum et vias saepserat Livia; laetique interdum nuntii vulgabantur, donec, Tac. A. 1, 5: occulere interdum et terrae mandare parabat, Sil. 6, 30; id. 4, 490.—

III I. q. interea, interim, meanwhile, in the meantime (post-class.): interdum cognito strepitu procurrit cubiculo, App. M. 9, p. 226, 17; 4, p. 149, 14; Dig. 4, 8, 16, § 1; Cod. Th. 4, 3, 1.

In the wild

interdum Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.40.12
interdum Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.13.3
interdum Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.8.7
interdum Celsus, De Medicina 4.2.p2
interdum Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas 3
interdum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.58

6 of 891 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.