de intus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dē (“from”) + intus (“inside”).
Adverb[edit]
dē intus (not comparable) (Late Latin, proscribed)
- from within, inside
- 5th century C.E., Cledonius (Grammatici Latini v.64.22–3)
- De intus et de foris uenio non possumus dicere quia praepositio aduerbiis numquam iungitur.
- We cannot say 'I am coming de intus or de foris' because prepositions never attach to adverbs.
- 5th century C.E., Cledonius (Grammatici Latini v.64.22–3)
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: dins
- Franco-Provençal: dens
- Old French: denz (see there for further descendants)
- Gascon: dens
- Occitan: dins
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “deĭntus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 31
Further reading[edit]
- “de intus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deintus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- deintus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.