quandoquidem

quandoquidem

Latin

Alternative forms

• quandō quidem

Etymology

Univerbation of quandō (“when, now that”) +‎ quidem (“restricting particle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷanˈdo.kʷi.dem/, [kʷän̪ˈd̪ɔkʷɪd̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwanˈdo.kwi.dem/, [kwän̪ˈd̪ɔːkwid̪em]
• Note: as in other univerbations with quidem (siquidem, tuquidem), the -o- in this word is regularly short, but may be long when not treated as a univerbation.[1] See quotations.

Conjunction

quandō̆quidem

1. since, seeing that
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 5.7.line 1024, (trochaic septenarius):

     MENAECHMVS Līberem ego tē? MESSENIO Vērum, quandŏquidem, ere, tē servāvī... MEN. Quid est?

     MEN. I should free you? MES. Sure, seeing as I saved your life, master... MEN. What's that?

   • 1st century CE, Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.10.52, (iambic senarius):

     Quandŏquidem et illī peccant, quōs minimē putēs, et […]

     Since even those whom you would least expect are sometimes at fault, and […]

References

1. Benjamin Fortson (en) Language and Rhythm in Plautus‎, De Gruyter, DOI:10.1515/9783110210026, →ISBN, pages 51; 248

Further reading

• “quandoquidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quandoquidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quandoquidem in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quandoquidem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette