adverb
vixdum
vixdum (not comparable)
Classical[ˈwɪks.dũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈviɡz.dum]
Meaning
- not comparableonly or but just; hardly, scarcely, or barely yet; almost
Haec ego omnia vixdum etiam coetū vestrō dīmissō comperī […].
I found out all these [things] scarcely even after your assembly had been dismissed […] .63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.10
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
vix adhūcvixdum — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 18
vixdum, adv., v. vix, II. C.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
vix-dum adv.,
hardly then, scarcely yet, but just: haec ego omnia vixdum etiam coetu nostro dimisso comperi: (Hannibalem) vixdum puberem, L.: progressis vixdum quattuor milia passuum, L.: puer vixdum libertatem, nedum dominationem modice laturus, L.: Vixdum dimidium dixeram, intellexerat, T.: vixdum epistulam tuam legeram, cum, etc.: vixdum ad consulem se pervenisse, et audisse, etc., L.
Origins
From vix + dum