quatenus Latin · revision 32774

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=185/184–129 BC, Scipio the Younger|origins=la quā, ine-pro *ten-os-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkʷaː.tɛ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkʷaː.te.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ It is written ''quātinus'' in Ovid, Frontinus and an inscription,^(OLD 2012) and Festus cites ''quātenōs''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quā|tenus|t1=where, by which way|t2=as far as]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|tenus]] as a fossilized form of an s-stem noun ⟨tenus⟩, ⟨-oris⟩, “snare, stretch”, from [[itc-pro|*tenos-]] and [[ine-pro|*ten-os-|t=stretch]], of the root of [[teneo|alt=teneō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Scipio the Younger.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an interrogative it asks how far in space, how long in time, to what extent, and in what manner: Cicero asks how long he should hold the fasces, and says one must consider carefully how far an orator should deal in jokes.^(OLD 2012) As a relative it is as far as, up to the point where, for as long as and to the extent that: Livy speaks of leaving the Carthaginian nothing of Italy but what his camp's rampart encloses, and Cicero writes that there is a limit to how far friendship may be pardoned.^(OLD 2012) From Lucretius on it also has a causal sense, inasmuch as, since, and in the ''Digest'' a final sense, so that, perhaps through interpolation.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it introduces purpose and requests, “in order that, that”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 185/184–129 BC – Scipio the Younger.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, inasmuch as.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, how long, to what extent, as long as.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, as far as.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(interrogative)'' How far? how long? to what extent? in what manner?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(relative)'' As far as, up to the point where; for as long as; to the extent that, insofar as.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Inasmuch as, seeing that, [[m|en|since]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # So that, in order that;^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' that, introducing a request.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tenus]]

+ * [[qua|alt=quā]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}