pridem

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Italic preposition *pri/*prai (whence prae, prior, prīmus), with the suffix -dem.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpriː.dem/, [ˈpriː.dẽ]

Adverb

prīdem (not comparable)

  1. long ago, long since
  2. previously, formerly

References
  • pridem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pridem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pridem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23)
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