eppure Italian · revision 38911

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=before 1311, Giordano da Pisa|origins=la et, la pūrus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /epˈpu.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|it|e|pure]], the conjunction and the adverb written as one word, with the doubled consonant that follows the conjunction in pronunciation.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary) The adverb [[pure]] continues [[la|pūrē|t=purely, simply]], the adverb of [[m|la|pūrus|t=clean, pure]], which goes back to [[ine-pro|*pewH-|t=to cleanse]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) REW lists the compound, “and yet”, under the Latin adverb.^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is in the sermons of Giordano da Pisa (before 1311), with the sense “nevertheless, all the same”: speaking of a place where the water has changed a thousand times, he says “and yet that place, and this, the sky gives” (''Eppure quello luogo, e questo dá il cielo'').^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The meaning has stayed the same since Old Italian, and the older spelling ''e pure'' remained in literary use.^(GDLI)^(Gabrielli 2020) Alfieri, Manzoni, Leopardi and Pascoli all use it, in verse and prose.^(GDLI) In exclamations it reasserts a point, reproaches or expresses regret.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1311 – Giordano da Pisa uses ''eppure''.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # [[m|en|yet]], and yet, [[m|en|nevertheless]], all the same: ''Studia poco, eppure prende bei voti.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(in exclamations)'' Used to insist on a point, or to reproach or express regret: ''Eppure ti avevo chiesto di non farlo!''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pure]]

+ * [[e]]

+ * [[oppure]]

+ * [[seppure]]

+ * [[purtroppo]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Eppur si muove!'' (“and yet it moves”), the words Galileo is said to have spoken about the Earth after his recantation, is used jokingly against someone who denies the obvious.^(Treccani 2011)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}