quidem

Latin

Etymology

From quid +‎ Proto-Italic *-im (emphatic marker); morphologically compare idem, from is (“he”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɪ.dẽː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.d̪em]
• Hyphenation: qui‧dem

Adverb

quidem (not comparable)(postpositive)

1. indeed
2. (emphatic) in fact
3. at least

   meā quidem sententiā ― at least in my opinion

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with quīdam (“certain”, pronoun/adjective).

Derived terms

adverbs

• equidem
• nē quidem

References

• “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, 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