"late"

[Matthew Faupel <matthew@CPDAPO.TELE.NOKIA.FI>]

After sending that previous post I vaguely remembered the concept of "late"
being used in one of the texts in the lessons.  It was (in The Date), and
the translation used there is "ca lo lerci cacra"; literally, "simultaneous
with a late hour".

I discovered "lerci" in the gismu list before asking the question in the
previous post, but concluded that it meant "late" as in "late delivery".  It
seems to me that "late" meaning "at an hour somewhere vaguely between 9.00pm
and 4.00am" and "late" meaning "delayed; after the expected time" are two
different concepts (saying "We met at a late hour" doesn't imply that the
hour was delayed in arriving :-)

So, is there a link between these two meanings that I'm missing?  If not,
which "late" is "lerci", and how should the other "late" be expressed?

Cheers,


Matthew