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Latin

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Etymology

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From quid + -em (as in id-em).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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quidem (not comparable) (postpositive)

  1. indeed
  2. in fact (emphatic)
  3. at least
    meā quidem sententiāat least in my opinion

Usage notes

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Derived terms

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References

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  • 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
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 181
  • quidem”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011