Lemma 1et

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and, and even; also, even; (et ... et = both ... and)

Morphology1 analysis

inv.et · regular

Lewis & Short

key · etFull entry

ĕt

I.conj. [Sanscr. ati, beyond; Gr., besides, yet; Lat. et-iam, at-avus], serves to connect, in the most general manner, single words or entire sentences, and.

II.In gen.: qui illius impudentiam norat et duritudinem, Cato ap.: te sale nata precor, Venus et genetrix patris nostri, Enn. ap. (Ann. v. 53 ed. Vahlen): blande et docte percontat, Naev. ap.; et saep.

III.In partic.

A.To subjoin a word or phrase which more accurately defines or more briefly comprehends what goes before, and indeed, and moreover, and that too; cur eo non estis contenti? et cur id potius contenditis, quod? etc.

B.To connect things similar or dissimilar after the words aeque, par, idem, similis, alius, etc. (more commonly atque, v. atque, I. 2.), as, than, and, v. aeque.

C.To connect two immediately successive points of time (only in poets and historians, esp. since the Aug. per.; atque, II. C.), often to be rendered in English by when, and then: advenit, et navibu' complevit litora, Poeta ap.

D.After an imperative, to subjoin the consequence of an action (poet. and in postAug. prose), and then: sit mihi, quod nunc est, etiam minus.

E.To subjoin the minor proposition (assumptio or propositio minor) in a syllogism, now, but (cf. atque, II.)

IV.With an accessory affirmative notion, and in fact, and indeed, and truly, and so: jam pridem a me illos abducere Thestylis orat.

V.To subjoin an emphatic question or exclamation — Esp. with quisquam: Matthiae.

VI.To connect an idea as either homogeneous or complementary to that which precedes, and so too, and also, and moreover, and at the same time; too, also, likewise hence, often in Liv., Curt., and late Lat., rarely in Cic., = etiam; fin.: Ge. Salvus sis. Di. Et tu salve; the foll.; so, fin.; et saep.: so.

VII.When repeated, et. et, it serves, like the Gr. or, to connect two ideas partitively, both. and, as well. as, not only. but also: et saep. More than twice — With a subordinate que or atque. — Et. que are sometimes used for et. et rarely in Cic. — Sometimes the second et subjoins a more weighty assertion; in which case et. et = cum. tum, not only. but also.

2.Et. neque or neque. et, when one clause is a negative (but et. et non, et non. et, when only one word is negatived): pueris nobis Cn. Aufidius praetorius et in senatu sententiam dicebat nec amicis deliberantibus deerat et Graecam scribebat historiam et videbat in litteris.

VIII.Less freq., tum. et, et. tum, in the same sense. See Hand Turs. II. pp. 467-540.