quodammodo Latin · revision 34179

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la quīdam, la modus}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ Also written separately, ''quōdam modō'',^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and split by another word, as ''quodam tamen modo'' in Quintilian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quīdam|modus|t1=a certain|t2=manner]], the ablative phrase ⟨quōdam modō⟩ “in a certain manner”, written as one word or separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|modus|alt=Modus]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure, judgement]] and [[ine-pro|*med-o-|t=measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in a speech on the agrarian law that a man, though what he gave could in no way be given to the people, ''tamen quodam modo dedit'', “yet in a manner gave it”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a certain manner, in a measure, so to speak, as it were, and is a classical word used by Cicero, Nepos, Publilius Syrus, Celsus and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ecclesiastical Latin keeps the sense in a certain way or measure, as it were.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus has ''quodam modo'' in the ''Agricola''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a certain [[m|en|manner]], in a [[m|en|measure]], so to speak, as it were.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}