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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkʷaː.reː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkʷaː.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the ablative phrase ⟨quā rē⟩, “by which thing”, from the ablative of [[quī]] and of [[rēs]] “thing, matter”, and is also written separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pacuvius has ''quārē expedī'', “so explain!”, and an epitaph of the Scipios ''quārē lubēns tē in gremiu, Scīpiō, recipit terra'', “therefore the earth gladly takes you into its lap, Scipio”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an interrogative ''quārē'' asks “how?” and, more often, “why?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) As a relative it means “by which means, whereby”, “for which reason”, and at the start of a sentence “therefore, hence”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Döderlein says ''[[cūr]]'' is used both for real questions and for rhetorical ones, ''quārē'' only for questions that expect an answer.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “why, for what cause, by which means, wherefore”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius: ''quārē expedī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''alienus est ab nostrā familiā'' – ''hem, periī: quārē?'', “he is no friend of our family” – “what, I'm done for: why?”^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''permulta sunt quae dīcī possunt, quārē intellegātur'', “there is a great deal that can be said to make it clear”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(interrogative)'' In what way?, how?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(interrogative)'' [[m|en|why]]?, for what reason?^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(relative)'' By which means, [[m|en|whereby]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(relative)'' For which reason; therefore, hence.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quī]]

+ * [[rēs]]

+ * [[cūr]]

+ * [[quāpropter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}