quidem

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷi.dem/, [ˈkʷɪd̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwi.dem/, [ˈkwiːd̪em]

quidem (not comparable) (postpositive)

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

   meā quidem sententiā ― at least in my opinion

• Not to be confused with quīdam.
• Sometimes emphasizes the word that comes before it.

• e.g. Magister quidem verba dēpōnentia coniugātiōnis prīmae imperāvit, sed haec sunt mihi enigma. (“Indeed the teacher asked for the deponent verbs of the first conjugation, but these are my enigma”)

• quidem magis: even more, especially.

• equidem
• nē...quidem

• “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