propterea
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From propter (“because of”) + ea (“these things”).
Adverb
[edit]proptereā (not comparable)
- therefore; for that reason
Derived terms
[edit]- propterea quod (“because”)
c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.3:
- Perfacile factū esse illīs probat cōnāta perficere, proptereā quod ipse suae cīvitātis imperium obtentūrus esset […] .
- He proves to them that it is very easy for those [men] to accomplish [similar] attempts [at kingship], because he himself was about to obtain the supreme command of his own tribe […] .
(Literally, “on this account because.” A pleonasm, or redundancy.)
- He proves to them that it is very easy for those [men] to accomplish [similar] attempts [at kingship], because he himself was about to obtain the supreme command of his own tribe […] .
References
[edit]- “propterea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propterea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “propterea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.