köken: From Persian البته (albatte, “of course”), from Arabic اَلْبَتَّة (al-batta). Cognate with Tatar әлбәттә (älbättä), Kazakh әлбетте (älbette), Kyrgyz албетте (albette), Uzbek albatta, Turkmen elbetde, Azerbaijani əlbəttə, Turkish elbette, etc.
the reason is that (introducing the reason for a previous assertion and expecting ready agreement) · as is to be expected from someone who; as being · seeing as, since, inasmuch as (specifying and qualifying a situation)
köken: For quid (“what, why, well!”, interjection) + -pe, the same corroborating particle seen in nempe; see also quispiam.
aile: quippinī
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