vixdum
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪks.dũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviɡz.dum]
Adverb
vixdum (not comparable)
- only or but just; hardly, scarcely, or barely yet; almost
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.10:
- Haec ego omnia vixdum etiam coetū vestrō dīmissō comperī […] .
- I found out all these [things] scarcely even after your assembly had been dismissed […] .
- Haec ego omnia vixdum etiam coetū vestrō dīmissō comperī […] .
Related terms
References
- “vixdum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vixdum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vixdum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.