utpote

• ut pote (non univerbized)

From ut +‎ pote. See also -pte.

utpote (not comparable)

1. namely as, inasmuch as, as, seeing that
   • c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 2.5.5:

     Satin nequam sum, ut pote qui hodie amare inceperim?

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   • c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, On the Eminent Commanders XXIII. Hannibal 2.3:

     “pater meus” inquit [Hannibal] “Hamilcar puerulo me, utpote non amplius novem annos nato, in Hispaniam imperator proficiscens Karthagine Iovi optimo maximo hostias immolavit. […] "

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2. (rare) introducing an explanation: since

   Synonym: quippe

   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 5.8.1:

     Me et incommoda valetudo, (e) qua iam emerseram utpote cum sine febri laborassem, […]

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• Usually construed with a relative pronoun, also followed by cum or adjectives and participles.

• “utpote”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “utpote”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “utpote”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• utpote, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011