quemadmodum
LatinEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Univerbation of quī (“what”) + ad (“according to”) + modus (“manner, way”), showing a type of fronting also known as the magnā cum laude-construction.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷem ˈad.mo.dum/, [kʷɛ̃ˑ ˈäd̪mɔd̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwem ˈad.mo.dum/, [kwɛm ˈäd̪mod̪um]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwem ad ˈmo.dum/, [kwɛm äd̪ ˈmɔːd̪um]
AdverbEdit
quemadmodum (not comparable)
- (interrogative) how, in what manner
- (relative) as, just as, as when
- (relative) for instance
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ReferencesEdit
- “quemadmodum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quemadmodum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur
- as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur