LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

herī̆

herī̆ (not comparable)
Classical[ˈhɛ.riː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛː.ri]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. not comparableyesterday
    Coordinate term: hodiē
    sed Antonius venit heri vesperi.But Antony arrived yesterday evening.68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 10.11.4

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

diē quī ante hodiernum fuit.
herī adv. — in Mille Verba, Tempus et Numerī
yesterday
herī — in Seneca, ch. I

hĕri or hĕre (in here neque e plane neque i auditur, Quint. 1, 4, 7:
I. here nunc e littera terminamus: at veterum comicorum adhuc libris invenio: Heri ad me venit, quod idem in epistulis Augusti, quas sua manu scripsit aut emendavit, deprehenditur, id. 1, 7, 22; cf. Charis. p. 180 P.; Prisc. p. 1011 ib.; v. esp. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 685), adv. for hesi; cf. hes in hesternus; v. the letter R; kindred with Sanscr. hyas; Goth. gis-tra; Germ. gestern; Engl. yesterday; Gr. χθές, orig. χες, yesterday.
I. Lit.
(a). Form heri (perh. only so in Cic.): Septembris heri Calendae, hodie ater dies, Afran. ap. Non. 73, 33; cf.: hoc heri effecit: hodie autem, etc., Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1 (al. here): ubi est hodie, quae Lyra fulsit heri? Ov. F. 2, 76: heri jam edixeram omnibus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 15: quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi? Ter. And. 4, 4, 29: heri vesperi apud me Hirtius fuit, Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 1: heri vesperi, id. Att. 13, 47, 2; 15, 11, 4: ut heri dicebam, id. Rep. 3, 31 fin.; cf.: cum heri ipsi dixeris, te, etc., id. ib. 3, 21: heri, Ter. And. 1, 1, 58; id. Eun. 1, 2, 3; 89; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 8; id. Hec. 1, 2, 115; id. Phorm. 1, 1, 2; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 180 et saep.—
(b). Form here (a few times in Plaut., once in Cic., and after the Aug. per. most freq.): hoc here effecit, Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1: res hodie minor est, here quam fuit, ac eadem cras, etc., Juv. 3, 23: here venisti mediā nocte, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 16; id. Truc. 2, 6, 28; id. Mil. 1, 1, 59: mihi quaerenti convivam dictus here illic De medio potare die, Hor. S. 2, 8, 2: hic here Phrixeae vellera pressit ovis, Ov. F. 3, 852: dura, anime, dura, here fortior fuisti, Gallio ap. Quint. 9, 2, 91; Mart. 1, 44, 2; 3, 12, 2; 4, 7, 5.—
II. Transf., of time just past, a short time ago, lately (very rare): Papias leges heri Severus exclusit, Tert. Apol. 4; Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2: sordebant tibi villicae, Concubine, hodie atque heri, Nunc, etc., but a short time ago, the other day (an imitation of the Gr. χθὲς καὶ πρώην), Cat. 61, 133; Prop. 3, 15, 1.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *(dʰ)ǵʰyésder. Proto-Indo-European *(dʰ)ǵʰyési Proto-Italic *hezi Latin hereder. Latin heri Probably a remodelling of here < Proto-Italic *hezi with the o-stem locative ending of domī, afterwards affected by iambic shortening. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyési (compare Proto-Celtic *gdesi), locative singular of *dʰǵʰyés.

Southern Gallo-Romance
  • Catalanahirfrom Old Catalan hir
  • Occitanièrfrom Old Occitan ieir
Ibero-Romance
  • Spanishayerfrom Old Spanish eri
  • Spanishahierfrom Old Spanish eri
  • Aragoneseayer
  • Old Galician-Portugueseeire
  • Old Galician-Portugueseeiri
  • Asturianayerifrom Old Leonese ayeri
  • Leoneseayerifrom Old Leonese ayeri
  • Ladinoayerfrom Old Spanish eri
Balkano-Romance
  • Romanianieri
  • Aromanianeri
  • Aromanianieri
  • Aromanianaeri
  • Aromanianaieri
Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italianieri
  • Corsicanéri
  • Dalmatianjere
  • Istriotièri
  • Tarantinoajèrefrom Neapolitan ajére
  • Sicilianjeri
  • Sicilianaieri
  • Venetangeri
Northern Gallo-Romance
  • Frenchhierfrom Old French ier
  • Normanhiaerfrom Old French ier
  • Normanhièrfrom Old French ier
Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulianîr
  • Ladininier
  • Romanshier
  • Romanshher
Gallo-Italic
  • Emilianajîr
  • Emilianaîr
  • Ligurianvêi
  • Lombardier
  • Lombardjer
  • Piedmonteseier
  • Romagnoljìr
  • Romagnolajìr
Insular Romance
  • Campidaneseerisèru
  • Logudoreseeris
  • Logudoresederis
  • Nuoreseeris
  • Nuoresederis
  • Nuoresederisero

Quick answers

What does herī̆ mean in Latin?
herī̆, a adverb, means “yesterday”.
How do you pronounce herī̆?
In classical Latin, [ˈhɛ.riː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈɛː.ri].