quindi

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum inde. The regular outcome of the stressed vowel should have been */e/. The actual /i/ may have been taken by analogy from quinci (< *eccum hince), with which quindi forms a natural pair, and where stressed /i/ is expected due to the following /ntʃ/ triggering anaphonesis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwin.di/

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• Rhymes: -indi
• Hyphenation: quìn‧di

Adverb

quindi

1. therefore, hence, thus

   Synonyms: allora, di conseguenza, dunque, perciò, pertanto, (archaic) poscia, (archaic) quinci

2. (dated) then, afterwards, thenceforth

   Synonyms: dopo, dopodiché, dunque, poi, successivamente, (archaic) poscia

3. (archaic, literary) thence, from there
4. (archaic, used in correlation with quinci) that way, to another side (as opposed a different one)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio, Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XII, p. 184 vv. 106-108:

     [...] così s'allenta la ripa che cade ¶ quivi ben ratta da l'altro girone; ¶ ma quinci e quindi l'alta pietra rade.

     [...] e'en thus attempered is the bank which falls ¶ sheer downward from the second circle there; ¶ but on this side and that the high rock graze.

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo d'amore”, in I Trionfi, published 1821, Chapter II, p. 146:

     Stanco già di mirar, non sazio ancora ¶ or quinci or quindi mi volgea, guardando ¶ cose ch'a ricordarle è breve l'ora.

     Weary with gazing, yet unsatisfied, ¶ I turned now this way and now that, and saw ¶ sights time will not suffice me to relate.

Conjunction

quindi

1. so

   Synonyms: perciò, pertanto, dunque

Further reading

• quindi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana