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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la quī, la modus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkʷoː.mɔ.doː], [ˈkʷoː.mɔ.dɔ]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkʷɔː.mo.do]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''quōmodō̆''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)
+ The final syllable is long in Catullus and short in Horace and Martial.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the ablative of [[m|la|quī|t=who, which]] with [[m|la|modus|t=manner, measure]], “in what manner”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) It is often written separately, and Plautus and later poets split it (⟨quō tū mē modō⟩).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus uses it as a question: ''quōmodo … Menaechmō nōmen est factum tibi?'', “how did you come to be called Menaechmus?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ ''Quōmodo'' asks “how?, in what way?”, also in rhetorical questions “how is it possible that?”, with verbs of saying “with what words?”, and alone, “how do you mean?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It asks about a condition, “how are things?” (Horace: ''Maecēnās quōmodo tēcum?''), and in exclamations means “how!, to what a degree!”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a relative it is “in the way that, as”, often with ''sīc'' or ''ita'', “just as”, and with the subjunctive “by which means”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ Church Latin uses it for “how” and “just as”;^(Stelten 1995) medieval Latin also uses it for “that” after verbs of saying and for “in order that”.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''quōmodo … nōmen est factum tibi?''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it as a relative, “as”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace: ''Maecēnās quōmodo tēcum?''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # ''(interrogative)'' How?, in what way?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # In what condition?^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(exclamatory)'' How!, to what a degree!^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(relative)'' In the way that, as; just as.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(with subjunctive)'' By which means, so that.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' That; in order that.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[quemadmodum]]
+ * [[modus]]
+ * [[quī]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}