The corpus record — Latin

jamjam

already, now

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

Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Thebais 13 · 2.08/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jam-jam — Lewis & Short

jam-jam (or separat. jam jam), the strengthened jam,

I already, now: o jamjam, optume, praeceptis paruisti, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 72: jamjam faciam ut jusseris, id. Curc. 5, 3, 29: jamjam intellego, Crasse, quid dicas, Cic. de Or. 3, 24; id. Brut. 14, 55; id. Phil. 2, 34, 87: jamjam nulla mora est, Verg. A. 2, 701: jamjam casurae arces, Ov. M. 12, 588; v. jam, I. A. 1. b. a.

In the wild

iamiamque Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.5
iamiam Seneca, Troades 1
iamiam Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.60
iamiamque Statius, Thebais 3.264
iamiamque Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.13.p2
iamiam Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.672

6 of 47 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.