igitur

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Latin

Etymology

  • Probably the post-tonic development of *agetor 'it is done' (> agitur) after e.g. quid.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

igitur

  1. (postpositive) therefore, then consequently

Usage notes

  • While it is a postpositive conjunction, it is attested in the Vulgate to start a sentence.
    405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.2.1:
    Igitur perfectī sunt caelī et terra et omnis ōrnātus eōrum
    Thus were made the heavens, the earth and all there is in them

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Old French: gieres, giers (?)

References

  • “igitur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “igitur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “igitur”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 297
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