olim

Borrowed from Hebrew עולים (olím).

olim

1. plural of oleh

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.lim/

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olim m (plural olim or olims)

1. the records of judgments rendered by the king's court during the reigns of St. Louis, Philip the Bold, Philip the Fair, Louis the Hutin, and Philip the Long

• “olim”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin ōlim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈolim/

olim

1. formerly, in former times, once, yesteryear, aforetime, once upon a time

• antee

• nun

• olima (“erstwhile, former, ancient”)
• olima tempo (“in days of old”)

• ōli (Late Latin, proscribed)

For ōle, olle, ōlus, ollus, archaic forms of ille, with locative ending -im, = illō tempore.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.lĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.lim]

ōlim (not comparable)

1. formerly, in time past, some time ago
   • 86-103 AD, Martial, Epigrammata, IX.70:

     Dixerat 'O mores! O tempora!' Tullius olim,
     sacrilegum strueret cum Catilina nefas,

     Cicero once said, "Oh, the manners! Oh, the times!",
     When prosecuting Catiline of a sacrilegious crime,

   • 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, Divus Vespasianus, 2:

     Princeps quoque et locum incunabulorum assidue frequentavit, manente villa qualis fuerat olim

     Even after [Vespasian] became emperor, he used constantly to visit the home of his infancy, where the manor-house was kept as it once was.

2. (used at the beginnings of fairytales) once upon a time
3. (chiefly poetic) one day, once, at some (future) time
   • 19 BC, Vergil, Aeneid, I.203:

     Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

     Someday, perhaps, remembering even this will be a pleasure.

4. often, for some time

• (once): quondam

• “olim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “olim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “olim”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• olim in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

olim

1. dative singular of olis