tamdiu

== Latin == === Etymology === From tam (“so”) +‎ diū (“long”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtan.di.uː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtan.di.u] === Adverb === tamdiū (not comparable) (for) so long all this time ==== Related terms ==== quamdiū ==== Descendants ==== 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 === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “tam diu”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 13: T–Ti, page 72 === Further reading === “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.