Compound ofquam(“how”) +diū(“long”)

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

quamdiū (notcomparable)

1. how long

   Synonym:quousque

   • Seneca Minor,Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle CI

     Quam bene vivas, nonquamdiu.

     How well you live, nothow long.

2. as long as,until,during
   • 63BCE,Cicero,Catiline OrationsOratio 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”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "quamdiu", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quamdiu”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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