Re: Despues and Apud

Adam Walker wrote:

>Does anyone know where the first "S" in despues comes from?  The VL
>original was supposedly depost or depositus giving French depuis,
>Portuguese depois, Italian dopo and Rumanian dupa.   Only Spanish has this
>extra "s".  Is there any identifiable historical reason or was it just
>Spanish whimsy.
According to Ralph Penny's "History of the Spanish Language", "despues" is
from the latin "de ex post". Mediaeval Spanish used "des" (< "de ex") as a
variant of "de" (< "de"), but today only the latter survives, except in
fossilised expressions such as des allí, desde, despues etc. It's also
worth noting that the variant "depues" (without the first <s>) was used in
Mediaeval Spanish and is still current in several dialects.

>Also did Latin apud spawn any childrean besides French avec from apud+haec?
Not as far as I know. Also, IIRC, "avec" is from "apud hoc"

Dan

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