de mane

Latin

Etymology

From dē +‎ māne.

Pronunciation
  • (Proto-Romance) IPA(key): /deˈmane/

Adverb

dē māne (not comparable)

  1. (Late Latin, proscribed) early in the morning
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Jeremiah 35:14:
      ego autem locutus sum ad vos, de mane consurgens et loquens, et non oboedistis mihi
      notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me
    • c. 5th century CE, Pompeius Grammaticus, Commentum artis Donati; republished as Heinrich Keil, editor, Grammatici Latini, volume 5, 1868, page 274:
      si est adverbium, multo minus iungis praepositionem. nam legimus praepositionem adverbio non iungi. numquid possum dicere ‘de mane’ et similia?
      If it is an adverb, much less do you join a preposition [to it], for we read that a preposition is not joined to an adverb. Surely I cannot say de mane and suchlike?[1]

Descendants

Sense has shifted to 'tomorrow' across Italo-Western Romance.

References
  1. Adams, James Noel. 2013. Social variation and the Latin language. Cambridge University Press. Page 596.
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