As an adverb meaning for a time, awhile , dum is found in old Latin, chiefly as an enclitic (cf. vixdum , nōndum ). Its use as a conjunction comes either through correlation (cf. cum ... tum , sī ... sīc ) or through substitution for a conjunction, as in the English the moment I saw it , I understood. Quoad is a compound of the relative quō , up to which point , with ad . The origin and early history of dōnec are unknown.

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