The corpus record — Latin

quamdiu

how long, as long as

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 3 · 13.18/10k
Epaminondas 2 · 11.98/10k
Hannibal 2 · 9.78/10k
Atticus 3 · 8.48/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 40 · 3.36/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. quamdiu — de Vaan

quamdiu 'how long, as long as' (P1.+); (4) diurnus 'of the day; daily' (Cic.+), diutinus 'lasting for a long time' (Pl+); biduum 'period of two days' (Cato+), triduum 'period of three days' (P1.+), quadnduum 'period of four days' (Pl+); (5) dhts [adj.] 'daylif (Enn.+). Pit, nom. *di(j)ous, gen. *diwos, loc. *di(j)ou I *djowi 'day'; ad. *-diwo- Of the day'. PIE *di-eu- 'day; sky\ IE cognates: see s.v. lupiter; Skt. … — [de Vaan, s.v. quamdiu, p. 187]

2. quam-dĭu — Lewis & Short

quam-dĭu, less freq. quandĭu (mostly as two words, sometimes separated:

I quam voluit diu, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7), adv.

I Interrog., how long ago? how long? quamdiu id factum est? Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 3: quandiu apud vos ero, Vulg. Marc. 9, 18.—

II Rel.

1 Of time, as long as, until, during (class.): quamdiu potuit, tacuit, Caes. B. G. 1, 17: disces, quamdiu voles, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2; Col. 12, 52, 13.—

(b) Until (very rare): jubebat, ut semper id comesset, quamdiu tamen melius invenisset, Lampr. Elag. 29, 7.— Comp.: quamdiutius, Not. Tir. p. 35.—Sup.: † quamdiutissime, Not. Tir. p. 35.—

2 Of inference, inasmuch as, in that (late Lat.): quandiu fecistis uni ex his fratribus, Vulg. Matt. 25, 40.

In the wild

Quamdiu Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.60.2
Quamdiu Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.19.7
quamdiu Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.8.p1
quamdiu Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 9
quamdiu Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.9
Quamdiu Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.66.19

6 of 167 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. quamdiu (scan pp. 187-188; entry #438). Root candidates: *di-, *djouwjo-, *deiu-.

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