quondam

Borrowed from Latin quondam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒndəm/

quondam (not comparable)

1. Former; once; at one time.
   • 16th c., William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, act III, scene I.

     This is the quondam king.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 8:

     For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.

• erstwhile
• See also Thesaurus:former

From cum (“when”) (older quom) + -dam (“demonstrative ending”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷon.dam/, [ˈkʷɔn.dã]

quondam (not comparable)

1. at a certain time, at one time, once, heretofore, formerly
2. sometimes

• umquam

• quondam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quondam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quondam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quondam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette