quandoquidem Latin · revision 32022

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

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷanˈdoː.kʷɪ.dẽː], [kʷanˈdɔ.kʷɪ.dẽː]^(Wiktionary)

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

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''quandō̆quidem''' ^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written separately.^(OLD 2012)

+ In dactylic verse the second syllable is short, as in Virgil and Lucretius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quandō|quidem|t1=when, since|t2=indeed]], a fusion of the conjunction with the particle.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The conjunction [[m|la|quandō]] is from [[m|la|quam|t=how, as]] and an element ⟨*dō⟩ also seen in [[dōnec]]; the OLD compares [[sa|कदा|tr=kadā́|t=when]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus;^(Köbler 2010) Terence has “since I am so helpless, so without counsel”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means since, seeing that or inasmuch as, giving a reason already known or granted.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “seeing that, because, since”,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval texts it also means “when”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of “since I am so helpless”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, with the second syllable short.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – In the sense “when”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # [[m|en|since|alt=Since]], seeing that, [[m|en|inasmuch as]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' When.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quando|alt=quandō]]

+ * [[quidem]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}