de ex

de ex

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin dē

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin dē ex

From dē + ex.

Preposition

dē ex (+ ablative) (Late Latin)

of (partitive)
- ca. 400 CE, Vetus Itala (Codex Vindobonensis 1185)^[1]
  invenit unum de ex conservis suis
  he found one of his fellow slaves
from (temporal)
- CIL 14, 5210^[2]
  coniugi karissimae vixit cum eo de ex die virginitatis sue
  for his cherished wife [who] lived with him from the day of her maidenhood
from, of (origin)
- 836 CE, Italy^[3]
  Signum manus Aribaldi de ex genere Francorum avitator civitatis Mediolani
  Signature from the hand of Aribaldus, a resident of Milan who is of Frankish descent.

Descendants

Ibero-Romance:
- Mozarabic: דש (dš)
- Old Leonese: des
  - ⇒ Asturian: dende
  - ⇒ Mirandese: zde, zdende, zinda
  - ⇒ Old Leonese: desque
    - Asturian: desque, esque
    - Mirandese: çque
- Old Galician-Portuguese: des
  - Galician: des
  - Portuguese: dês
- Spanish: des
  - ⇒ Spanish: desde
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: des
- French: dès

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “de ex”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 27

^ Lehmann, Christian. 2019. Complex spatial prepositions from Latin to Castilian. Revue romane 54: 21.
^ Lehmann, Christian. 2019. Complex spatial prepositions from Latin to Castilian. Revue romane 54: 21.
^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “deex”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 310/2