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
Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?
Borrowed from Hokkien, as per Chan-Yap (1980) and Manuel (1948), possibly: * 的 (tiak, “true; real”), as in 的確 /的确 (tiak-khak, “indeed; really”) with the Hokkien term as used in the Philippines, attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642), defined in Spanish as ciertamente (“certainly”). * 大約 /大约 (tāi-iak, “approximately; more or less; probably; likely”)