quapropter

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷaːˈprɔp.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈprɔp.ter]
• The Lewis & Short dictionary misprints a breve on the -a-; see quotations for metrical examples of the long -ā-.

Adverb

quāpropter (not comparable)

1. (interrogative) why?, wherefore?
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 273, (meter: trochaic septenarius):

     PHILEMATUS. Quāpropter? SCAPHA. Quia ēcastor mulier rēctē olet, ubi nihil olet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 161-163, (meter: iambic senarius):

     SIMO. […] quem ego crēdō manibus pedibusque obnīxē omnia
     factūrum, magis id adeō mihi ut incommodet
     quam ut obsequātur gnātō. SOSIA. Quāpropter? SIMO. Rogās?

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2. (relative) on which account, wherefore
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.371–372, (meter: dactylic hexameter):

     Quāpropter neque nātālī prīvāta vidētur
     esse diē nātūra animae nec fūneris expers.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “quapropter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quapropter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quapropter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.