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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• while (subs.): tempus, spătium, mŏra: v. time. Phr.. hold your peace for a little w., tace parumper, Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 78: Milo delayed for a little w., Milo paullisper commoratus est, Cic. Mil. 10, 28: I have been speaking a long w., diu loquor, Pl. Ps. 2, 3, 21: the crime was committed a great w. ago, scelus factumst jam diu, Pl. Most. 2, 2, 45: a little w. after, paullo post, Cic. Fam. 16, 5, 2: a good w. after, aliquanto post, id. Caec. 4., 11: in a little w., in brevi spatio, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2: that I might see you after so long a w., ut te tanto intervallo viderem, Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 2: in the mean w. Munatius comes, interim venit Munatius, id. Fam. 10, 12, 2: worth w., operae pretium, Cic.: Liv.
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• while (conj.):
      1. 1. dum (the present is almost always used with dum, though the rest of the sentence may be in a past tense: as, dum haec parantur, Saguntum jam oppugnabatur, while these preparations were [lit. are] making, Saguntum was already being assaulted, Liv.: but when dum signifies as long as, it may take a past or future: as, hoc feci dum licuit, I did this as long as I was permitted, Cic.: v. Lat. Gr. § 393, Obs. 2): w. this was being done in Apulia, the Samnites did not keep the town of Interamna, dum haec in Apulia gerebantur, Samnites Interamnam urbem non tenuerunt, Liv. 10, 36: w. he wished to be like Alexander, he was found most unlike the Crassi, dum Alexandri similis esse voluit, Crassorum inventus est dissimillimus: Cic. Brut. 81, 282: with subj. in the oratio obliqua: some say that w. he was being bound to the stake Flaccus enjoined silence, quidam tradunt dum ad palum deligatur silentium fieri Flaccum jussisse, Liv. 26, 16: also with subj. in directa or., chiefly in the poets; the maiden, w. she was flying, saw not the snake, puella, dum fugeret, non vidit hydrum, Virg. G. 4, 457: also with subj. if while is nearly the same as until, and has any idea of purpose: wait a little, w. he sleeps out his first sleep, paullisper mane, dum edormiscat unum somnum, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 64.
      2. 2. dōnec (as long as: it has the same construction as dum: v. Lat. Gr. § 499): w. I was pleasing to you, donec gratus eram tibi, Hor. Od. 3, 9, 1.
      3. 3. quum (when, whereas): w. I was at Athens I frequently heard Zeno, Zenonem, quum Athenis essem, audiebam frequenter, Cic. N. D. 1, 21, 59: and w. friendship has many advantages, this is the chief of all, quumque amicitia plurimas contineat commoditates, tum illa praestat omnibus, id. Am. 7, 23. While with the English participle is not expressed in Latin: I dictated this w. walking, haec dictavi ambulans, Cic.
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• while, while away (v.): Phr.: to w. away the time, the hours, tempus, horas fallere: meantime they w. away the intervening hours with converse, interea medias fallunt sermonibus horas., Ov. M. 8, 652. Fallere is to beguile: perh. to while away should be to wile away: if simply to pass the time, then use tempus terere, degere: v. to pass.
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• WHILE
s. tempus (time): spatium (space of time): mora (delay): otium (leisure). A little while, breve spatium; paullulum temporis; paullulum: for a little while, parumper (in the sense of abridging); paullisper (in the sense of patiently waiting; e.g., I turn for a little while from the dreams, discedo parumper a somniis: wait a little while, paullisper mane): a little while after, non ita multo post: in a little while, intra breve spatium (within a short time); brevi tempore interjecto; post breve tempus; paullo post (after a little while, soon after): a good while, aliquantum temporis: a good while after, aliquanto post: a long while, longum tempus; multum temporis: a long while after, post longum tempus; longo tempore interjecto: in the mean while, interea: interim (according to Döderlein, the former marks a space, the latter a point, of time; Vid: Pr. Intr., ii., p. 196, 7).
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• WHILE, WHILST
conjunction, dum (during the time that; as; denoting that one event is contemporary with another; generally joined with the present indicative, even when events of the past time are spoken of, but we sometimes find the perfect: dum in the sense of quamdiu, “as long as, when referring to the past time, is regularly joined with the imperfect; Zumpt, § 506, 507; the answering clause often begins with subito, repente: to mark a sudden, unexpected event, integer jam, interea jam, in Liv., interim): donec (not used = “as long as” before Augustan poets and Liv.): cum (at the time when, denoting simultaneousness, with the perfect or imperfect indicative, the perfect being used in historical narratives, the imperfect in descriptions: the simultaneousness is marked more emphatically by adding interea or interim; Zumpt, § 580). As used to point out the coexistence of two states, etc., that should not coexist, cum interea, or cum only; e.g., bellum subito exarsit, cum Ligarius, domum spectans, nullo se negotio implicari passus est (“while Ligarius all the while,” etc.).