quidem
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From quid + -em (as in id-em).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷi.dem/, [ˈkʷɪd̪ɛ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwi.dem/, [ˈkwiːd̪em]
Adverb[edit]
quidem (not comparable) (postpositive)
Usage notes[edit]
- Not to be confused with quīdam.
- Sometimes emphasizes the word that comes before it.
- e.g. Magister quidem verba dēpōnentia coniugātiōnis prīmae imperāvit, sed haec sunt mihi enigma. (“Indeed the teacher asked for the deponent verbs of the first conjugation, but these are my enigma”)
- quidem magis: even more, especially.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “quidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quidem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- according to my opinion: ut mihi quidem videtur
- according to my opinion: mea (quidem) sententia
- to be ignorant of even the elements of logic: dialecticis ne imbutum quidem esse
- nominally; really: verbo, nomine; re, re quidem vera
- to say not a syllable about a person: ne verbum (without unum) quidem de aliquo facere
- so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus
- so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque haec quidem de...
- this much he said: haec (quidem) ille
- there is something in what you say; you are more or less right: est istuc quidem aliquid
- no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
- quite rightly: et recte (iure) quidem
- quite rightly: recte, iure id quidem
- according to my opinion: ut mihi quidem videtur
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 181