quapropter Latin · revision 31202

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷaːˈprɔp.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷaˈprɔp.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|quā|t=which]], the ablative feminine of [[m|la|quī|t=who, which]], and [[m|la|propter|t=because of]]; compare [[m|la|proptereā|t=for that reason]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨propter⟩ from the family of [[m|la|prope|t=near]], from an iterative preverb [[ine-pro|*própro|t=on and on]], cognate with [[grc|πρόπρο|tr=própro|t=before; on and on]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author,^(Köbler 2010) with the question ''quāpropter?'' – ''sciēs'', “why?” – “you'll know”, in the ''Epidicus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an interrogative it is “for what reason? why?”, which Lewis and Short call ante- and post-classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a relative it is “on account of which”, as Plautus' “what is there for which you threaten us?”, and at the head of a new sentence “for this reason, therefore”, as Terence's “so we must keep quiet somehow”.^(OLD 2012) Terence also splits it, ''quā mē propter addūxī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “wherefore, on which account, why”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus as an interrogative and as a relative.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence for “therefore”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

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

+ # ''(relative)'' On account of which, [[m|en|wherefore]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(opening a sentence)'' For this reason, therefore.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[propter]]

+ * [[proptereā]]

+ * [[quārē]]

+ * [[quamobrem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}