quemadmodum Latin · revision 18065

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la quī, la ad, la modus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkʷẽː ˈad.mɔ.dũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkʷɛm ˈad.mo.dum], [ˈkʷɛm ˈad ˈmɔː.dum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|quem|t=which]], [[m|la|ad|t=according to]] and [[m|la|modum|t=manner]], “according to which manner”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) It is often written separately, in three parts or in two.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it as a question: ''Quemadmodum?'', “How?”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler first records it in Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Quemadmodum'' asks “how?, in what way?” (Cicero: ''praetor tē quemadmodum possidēre iussit?''), in indirect questions and in exclamations, “how!”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) As a relative it is “in the way that, as”, often with ''sīc'' or ''ita'', “just as”, and “for example”; with contrasting ideas, ''quemadmodum … sīc'' is “while … at the same time”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “how, in what manner” and “as, just as”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''Quemadmodum?''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''praetor tē quemadmodum possidēre iussit?''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it in questions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(interrogative)'' How?, in what way?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(exclamatory)'' How!^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(relative)'' As, just as.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # For example.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quōmodo]]

+ * [[modus]]

+ * [[sīcut]]

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+ ==References==

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