igitur

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• Uncertain. According to De Vaan, it probably has the same etymology as agitur (“it is done”) (passive third-person singular of agō (“to do, act”)), from Proto-Italic *agetor: if so, the change of *a- to i- in the first syllable is an example of pre-Latin vowel reduction (weakening) in an unstressed non-initial syllable, caused by the conjunction habitually being placed after other words, e.g. quid.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.ɡɪ.tʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.d͡ʒi.tur]

igitur

1. (usually postpositive classically) therefore, then, consequently

   Synonym: proinde

   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 765:

     Igitur id quod agitur, †hic† primum praeverti decet.

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   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4.90–91:

     Eho dīc mihi, quis illic igitur est?

     Hey? Tell me, who is he then?

   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 25:

     Igitur ne maiorem iniuriam in secreto frater acciperet, consurrexi ad officium nuptiale.

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   • 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

• Old French: gieres, giers (?)

• “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