The corpus record — Latin

jampridem

This long time, now for a long time, hitherto

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Where it lives

Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jam-prīdem — Lewis & Short

jam-prīdem (and separat. jam prī-dem; v. jam and pridem),

I adv., long ago, long since, a long time ago: id jam pridem sensi, Plaut. Pseud. 1, 5, 7: is jam pridem mortuus est, Cic. Rosc. Com. 14, 42; id. Att. 11, 14, 4: erat jam pridem apud me reliquum pauxillulum nummorum, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 3: jam pridem quidem, cum vultus inter vos minime fraternos cernebam, Liv. 40, 8; so opp. nondum, Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: te nunc etiam, Cic. Marc. 9, 28: te nunc vero, id. Att. 2, 7, 4.—

II Esp., This long time, now for a long time, hitherto: cupio equidem, et jam pridem cupio, etc., Cic. Att. 2, 5, 1: jam pridem hanc prolem cupio enumerare meorum, Verg. A. 6, 717; id. E. 2, 43: nihil jam sum pridem admiratus magis, Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 1: qui bellum jam pridem parabat, had long been preparing, Just. 12, 8, 2: veritus ne traderetur Philippo, jam pridem hosti, Liv. 36, 14; v. jam, I. A. 1. b., and pridem.

In the wild

iampridem Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.6.26
iampridem Vergil, Aeneid 6.717
iampridem Ovid, Fasti 1.702
iampridem Horace, Epistulae 1.14.27
iampridem Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.IX.p1
Iampridem Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 10.1.45

6 of 16 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.