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quon⋅dam

[kwon-duhm, -dam]
–adjective
former; onetime: his quondam partner.

Origin:
1580–90; < L
quon·dam   (kwŏn'dəm, -dām')   
adj.  That once was; former: "the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober" (Bret Harte).

[Latin, from quom, when; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.]

Quondam

Quon"dam\, a. [L., formerly.] Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." --Shak.

Quondam

Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." --Latimer.

quondam 
1535, from L., lit. "formerly," used in Eng. as a noun meaning "former holder of some office or position."
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