per quid
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Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /per kʷid/, [pɛr kʷɪd̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /per kwid/, [pɛr kwid̪]
Adverb[edit]
per quid (not comparable)
- (interrogative) for what?, why?
- 54 C.E., Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii.8:
- ‘oro, per quid?’ quod sororem suam, festivissiman omnium puellarum, quam omnes Venerem vocarent, maluit Iunonem vocare.
- (relative) for this reason; for that
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: perché
- Gallo-Romance: (per influenced by pro)
- Old French: por quoi; par cel que
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: (per influenced by pro)