ideo Latin · revision 17942

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ideō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[id]], the neuter accusative of [[is]], and [[m|la|eō]], its ablative: “this for this”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) whose slave boasts ''nūllum perdidī, ideō quia numquam ūllum habuī'', “I never lost a patron, because I never had one”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ With a following causal clause (''quia'', ''quod'', ''ut'') ''ideō'' means “for the reason (that)”, and on its own “for that reason, therefore”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short note that it is especially frequent in Quintilian.^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Ideōque'' is “and so”.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it “for that reason, therefore”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''ideō quia numquam ūllum habuī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(with quia, quod, ut)'' For the reason (that).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # For that reason, [[m|en|therefore]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''ideōque'', and so.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ideōque]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[idcircō]]

+ * [[ergō]]

+ * [[igitur]]

+ * [[itaque]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}