Translation
so much; to such a degree
Examples
territus fugeret.
He was so terrified that he ran away.
cognoscerem.
The city is so changed that I did not recognise it.
stultus .
I am not as foolish as that.
.
And indeed this is true.
perseveravit.
He kept at it to that degree.
is ad plus the old ablative , "to that point", and it grades whatever it is attached to: an adjective, an adverb, a verb, or a whole statement. Its standard construction is ... , "so much so that", pulling a result clause with the SUBJUNCTIVE behind it.
It overlaps with , which grades adjectives and adverbs, and with and , which grade verbs, but is the one that will happily take a whole clause in its scope. It also works as a bare emphasiser meaning "in fact, what is more", especially in . Note the homograph: is also the first person singular of , adire, "I go to, I approach", a compound of , and nothing but context separates the two.
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