quamdiu

Compound of quam (“how”) + diū (“long”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷan.di.uː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷan.di.u]

quamdiū (not comparable)

1. how long

   Synonym: quousque

   • Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle CI

     Quam bene vivas, non quamdiu.

     How well you live, not how long.

2. as long as, until, during
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.11:

     Quamdiū mihi cōnsulī dēsignātō, Catilīna, īnsidiātus es, nōn pūblicō mē praesidiō sed prīvātā dīligentiā dēfendī.

     As long as I was consult-elect, Catiline, you plotted against me, [and] I defended myself not with a public guard but by private precautions.

• “quamdiu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "quamdiu", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quamdiu”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.