tamdiu

From tam (“so”) +‎ diū (“long”).

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

tamdiū (not comparable)

1. (for) so long
2. all this time

• quamdiū

• Old French: tandis que
• ⇒ Old French: tant dis que (reanalysed as tantōs diēs)
  • Middle French: tant dis, tanz dis, tandis + que or con, com, comme
    • French: tandis que, tandis
• Old Occitan: tandius...quandius

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tam diu”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 13: T–Ti, page 72

• “tamdiu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tamdiu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.