atqui Latin · revision 30794

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈat.kʷiː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈat.kʷi]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''atquī''' ^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''atquīn'', which Lewis & Short call post-classical; manuscripts sometimes have ''adquī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|at|quī|t1=but|t2=how, somehow]], here an adverb.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL notes that in Plautus the particles have not yet fully grown together (⟨at pol quī⟩).^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|at]] to [[itc-pro|*ati]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂et(i)|t=back, away]], cognate with [[grc|ἀτάρ|tr=atár|t=but]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it to open a reply: ''numquam auferēs hinc aurum. — atquī iam dabis'', “you'll never get the gold from here. — But you'll give it in a moment”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Atquī'' introduces an objection to what has just been said, “but, and yet, nevertheless”, especially at the start of a reply in dialogue.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also introduces a statement that goes the other way without contradicting, “but all the same”, and in philosophical argument it marks the minor premiss of a syllogism, “now, but” (Cicero).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “however, but, nevertheless”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''atquī iam dabis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in a syllogism.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # But, and yet, [[m|en|nevertheless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # But all the same, still.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(logic)'' Now (introducing the minor premiss of a [[m|en|syllogism]]).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[at]]

+ * [[quī]]

+ * [[atque]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}