de mane

Latin

Etymology

From dē +‎ māne.

Adverb

dē māne (not comparable) (Late Latin)

1. (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?

Descendants

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

• ⇒ Eastern Romance: *dēmānitia
  • Aromanian: dimineatsã, dimneatsã, dumneatsã
  • Romanian: dimineață
• Dalmatian:
  • ⇒ desmun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: domani, dimani; dimane, domane
  • Neapolitan: dimane, dumane
  • Sicilian: dumani
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: dman, adman, edman
    • Ligurian: doman, deman, adman
    • Old Lombard: domane
      • Lombard: doman
    • Piedmontese: doman, dman, adman
  • Friulian: doman
  • Istriot: deimàn, duman
  • Ladin: doman
  • Romansch: damaun
  • Venetian: doman
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: demà
  • Franco-Provençal: deman
  • French: demain
  • Occitan: deman, doman
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: deman (Ribagorçan)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 347: “domani” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “de mane”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 36