Forquid(“what, why, well!”,interjection) +-pe, the same corroborating particle seen innempe; see alsoquispiam.
quippe(discourse particle)
- (explanatory, quasi-conjunction) thereason is that(introducing the reason for a previous assertion and expecting ready agreement)
- (used as a standalone answer, often followed by a sentence introduced withetenim)
- (followed by quī, quae, quod with subjunctive) as is to be expected from someone who; as being
- (followed by ubī̆ with indicative or subjunctive)seeing as,since,inasmuch as(specifying and qualifying a situation)
- (followed by cum,quandō,quoniam,quod,quia,sī,quī(instrumental) with indicative) as isnatural when,seeing as(introducing a justification, defence etc.)
- (explicative, often parenthetic)indeed,since,after all,why,I mean(often corresponding to a writtendash in English)
Vergil,
Aeneid 1.37–39:
- Meneincepto desistere victam,
nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?
Quippe vetor fatis.- 1983 translation by Robert Fitzgerald
- Give up what I began? Am I defeated? Am I impotent to keep the king of Teucrians from Italy? The Fates forbid me,am I to suppose?
- for,namely(explaining the usage of a word or phrase)
- “quippe”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quippe”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “quippe”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995),New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN
