equidem

From e- (demonstrative prefix) +‎ quidem. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Where does the "e-" come from?

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.kʷɪ.dẽː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.kʷi.d̪em]
• Hyphenation: e‧qui‧dem

equidem (not comparable)

1. truly, indeed, certainly
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.12:

     “Crēdō equidem, nec vāna fidēs, genus esse deōrum.”

     “I truly believe — nor [is my] faith unfounded — [that man] to be of divine descent.”
     (That is, Dido believes Aeneas is the son of Venus.)

2. (first-person reference by an author or speaker) for my part, as far as I am concerned, as for me
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.551:

     vix equidem crēdō

     For my part, I hardly believe [it]

• “equidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “equidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “equidem”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.