quemadmodum

• quem ad modum

Univerbation of quī (“what”) +‎ ad (“according to”) +‎ modus (“manner, way”), showing a type of fronting also known as the magnā cum laude-construction.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷẽː ˈad.mɔ.dũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛm ˈad.mo.dum]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛm ˈad ˈmɔː.dum]

quemadmodum (not comparable)

1. (interrogative) how, in what manner
2. (relative) as, just as, as when
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.11:

     Haec tamen praeceptī meī summa est: sīc cum īnferiōre vīvās quemadmodum tēcum superiōrem velīs vīvere.

     However, this is the sum of my advice: you should live with an inferior just as you would wish a superior to live with you.

3. (relative) for instance

• (how, in what manner): quōmodo
• (just as): ita, quōmodo, sīc, sīcut

• “quemadmodum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quemadmodum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur