quomodo
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quōmodo (“In what way?”).
Noun
quomodo (plural quomodos)
- (obsolete) The means, way, or method (of doing something).
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
- Mr Northerton was desirous of departing that evening, and nothing remained for him but to contrive the quomodo, which appeared to be a matter of some difficulty.
Latin
Etymology
From quō modō (“in what way”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷoː.mo.do/, [ˈkʷoːmɔd̪ɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwo.mo.do/, [ˈkwɔːmod̪o]
Adverb
quōmodo (not comparable)
- (interrogative) how, in what way
- Quomodo vales?
- How are you?
- Quomodo vales?
Synonyms
- (how): quemadmodum
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: cum
- Asturian: cómo
- Catalan: com
- English: quomodo
- French: comme, comment
- Friulian: cemût
- Galician: como
- Ido: kom
- Istriot: cume
- Italian: come
- Norman: coume (France), coument (France)
- Occitan: coma
- Old Galician-Portuguese: como
- Papiamentu: komo
- Picard: conme, kmint
- Portuguese: como
- Romanian: cum
- Romansch: co, cu
- Sardinian: comente, comenti, cumenti
- Sicilian: comu
- Spanish: como, cómo
- Vulgar Latin: *quomo
- Walloon: kimint, comint
References
- “quomodo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quomodo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to detail the whole history of an affair: ordine narrare, quomodo res gesta sit
- as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur
- to detail the whole history of an affair: ordine narrare, quomodo res gesta sit
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