"iam" meaning in Latin

See iam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [ˈjãː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈjam] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) Forms: jam [alternative]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *Hyā́m, acc.sg.f. of *Hyós (“who, which”). Etymology templates: {{inh|la|ine-pro|*Hyā́m}} Proto-Indo-European *Hyā́m Head templates: {{la-adv|iam|-}} iam (not comparable)
  1. already Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-6lM5bK68
  2. now Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-7V65o34t
  3. (as iam iam) doubly emphatic: now — now, this very moment, this instant, any time now, as of now, now indeed Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-nOISQqL8 Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Time Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 1 4 1 0 51 41 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 2 0 0 53 43 0 1 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 51 44 2 2 Disambiguation of Time: 0 0 91 0 0 9
  4. anymore Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-sB-UgxNc Categories (other): Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 2 0 0 53 43 0 1 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 51 44 2 2
  5. soon Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-SnVBSLiK
  6. (in transitions) now, again, moreover, once more Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-iam-la-adv-SwcQLH2d
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: et i, et iam, etiam, iam iam () (english: at this very moment, precisely now), iam nunc () (english: even now, as things now stand; just now, at this very time), iam pridem () (english: long ago, long since), iamdudum, non iam, quon iam

Alternative forms

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      "word": "etiam"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "at this very moment, precisely now",
      "translation": "at this very moment, precisely now",
      "word": "iam iam ()"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "even now, as things now stand; just now, at this very time",
      "translation": "even now, as things now stand; just now, at this very time",
      "word": "iam nunc ()"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "long ago, long since",
      "translation": "long ago, long since",
      "word": "iam pridem ()"
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      "word": "iamdudum"
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      "word": "non iam"
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        {
          "english": "Translation by Charles Duke Yonge\nIt was all violence, and, as I have said before, a sort of earthquake or tempest,—it was anything rather than a court of justice, or a legal discussion, or a judicial investigation.",
          "ref": "66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 35.96",
          "text": "vis illa fuit et, ut saepe iam dixi, ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam iudicium aut disceptatio aut quaestio.",
          "translation": "Translation by Charles Duke Yonge\nIt was all violence, and, as I have said before, a sort of earthquake or tempest,—it was anything rather than a court of justice, or a legal discussion, or a judicial investigation.",
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          "english": "Elected for the tenth time already, Sextus and Licinius the tribunes made a law for decemvirs of Rome's sacred rites to be issued in part from the people. Five were elected from the patricians, five others from the people; by this same move, a straight path to consulship had now been open to them.",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6.42.2",
          "text": "Refecti decumum iidem tribuni, deinde Sextius et Licinius dē decemvirīs sacrōrum ex parte dē plēbe creandīs lēgem pertulēre. creātī quīnque patrum quīnque plēbis; gradūque eō jam via facta ad consulātum vidēbātur.",
          "translation": "Elected for the tenth time already, Sextus and Licinius the tribunes made a law for decemvirs of Rome's sacred rites to be issued in part from the people. Five were elected from the patricians, five others from the people; by this same move, a straight path to consulship had now been open to them.",
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          "english": "And now, I have completed a great work, which not Jove's anger, and not fire nor steel, nor fast-consuming time can sweep away.",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 15.871",
          "roman": "nec poterit ferrum nec edāx abolēre vetustās.",
          "text": "jamque opus exēgī, quod nec Jovis īra nec ignis",
          "translation": "And now, I have completed a great work, which not Jove's anger, and not fire nor steel, nor fast-consuming time can sweep away.",
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          "english": "CAPPADOX: Now, now, I’ll do as you say (lit., as you will have ordered)!",
          "ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 707",
          "text": "CAPPADOX: Iam iam faciam ut iusseris.",
          "translation": "CAPPADOX: Now, now, I’ll do as you say (lit., as you will have ordered)!",
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          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.371–372",
          "text": "Iam iam nec maxuma Iūnō / nec Sāturnius haec oculīs pater aspicit aequīs.",
          "translation": "“Right now, neither do supreme Juno nor the Father [who is son of] Saturn regard these [matters] with the impartial eyes [of justice].”\nOr, “No longer do ….”",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "english": "Moreover, what soldier can match the Roman in entrenching?",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita : 9.19",
          "text": "Iam in opere quis par Romano miles?",
          "translation": "Moreover, what soldier can match the Roman in entrenching?",
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        "now, again, moreover, once more"
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        "(in transitions) now, again, moreover, once more"
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈjãː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
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      "ipa": "[ˈjam]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
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  "word": "iam"
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    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin adverbs",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin uncomparable adverbs",
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      "word": "et iam"
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      "english": "at this very moment, precisely now",
      "translation": "at this very moment, precisely now",
      "word": "iam iam ()"
    },
    {
      "english": "even now, as things now stand; just now, at this very time",
      "translation": "even now, as things now stand; just now, at this very time",
      "word": "iam nunc ()"
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    {
      "english": "long ago, long since",
      "translation": "long ago, long since",
      "word": "iam pridem ()"
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    {
      "word": "iamdudum"
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      "word": "non iam"
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        {
          "english": "Translation by Charles Duke Yonge\nIt was all violence, and, as I have said before, a sort of earthquake or tempest,—it was anything rather than a court of justice, or a legal discussion, or a judicial investigation.",
          "ref": "66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 35.96",
          "text": "vis illa fuit et, ut saepe iam dixi, ruina quaedam atque tempestas et quidvis potius quam iudicium aut disceptatio aut quaestio.",
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        {
          "english": "Elected for the tenth time already, Sextus and Licinius the tribunes made a law for decemvirs of Rome's sacred rites to be issued in part from the people. Five were elected from the patricians, five others from the people; by this same move, a straight path to consulship had now been open to them.",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6.42.2",
          "text": "Refecti decumum iidem tribuni, deinde Sextius et Licinius dē decemvirīs sacrōrum ex parte dē plēbe creandīs lēgem pertulēre. creātī quīnque patrum quīnque plēbis; gradūque eō jam via facta ad consulātum vidēbātur.",
          "translation": "Elected for the tenth time already, Sextus and Licinius the tribunes made a law for decemvirs of Rome's sacred rites to be issued in part from the people. Five were elected from the patricians, five others from the people; by this same move, a straight path to consulship had now been open to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "english": "And now, I have completed a great work, which not Jove's anger, and not fire nor steel, nor fast-consuming time can sweep away.",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 15.871",
          "roman": "nec poterit ferrum nec edāx abolēre vetustās.",
          "text": "jamque opus exēgī, quod nec Jovis īra nec ignis",
          "translation": "And now, I have completed a great work, which not Jove's anger, and not fire nor steel, nor fast-consuming time can sweep away.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "english": "CAPPADOX: Now, now, I’ll do as you say (lit., as you will have ordered)!",
          "ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 707",
          "text": "CAPPADOX: Iam iam faciam ut iusseris.",
          "translation": "CAPPADOX: Now, now, I’ll do as you say (lit., as you will have ordered)!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "“Right now, neither do supreme Juno nor the Father [who is son of] Saturn regard these [matters] with the impartial eyes [of justice].”\nOr, “No longer do ….”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.371–372",
          "text": "Iam iam nec maxuma Iūnō / nec Sāturnius haec oculīs pater aspicit aequīs.",
          "translation": "“Right now, neither do supreme Juno nor the Father [who is son of] Saturn regard these [matters] with the impartial eyes [of justice].”\nOr, “No longer do ….”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(as iam iam) doubly emphatic: now — now, this very moment, this instant, any time now, as of now, now indeed"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "as iam iam"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "anymore"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anymore",
          "anymore"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "soon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soon",
          "soon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Moreover, what soldier can match the Roman in entrenching?",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita : 9.19",
          "text": "Iam in opere quis par Romano miles?",
          "translation": "Moreover, what soldier can match the Roman in entrenching?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "now, again, moreover, once more"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "now",
          "now"
        ],
        [
          "again",
          "again"
        ],
        [
          "moreover",
          "moreover"
        ],
        [
          "once",
          "once"
        ],
        [
          "more",
          "more"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in transitions) now, again, moreover, once more"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in transitions"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈjãː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈjam]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "iam"
}

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