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224. Conjunctions are more numerous and more accurately distinguished in Latin than in English. The following list includes the common conjunctions1 and conjunctive phrases:—

COÖRDINATE

a. Copulative and Disjunctive

et , -que, atque ( ac ), and.

et ... et; et ... -que ( atque ); -que ... et; -que ... -que (poetical), both ... and.

etiam , quoque , neque nōn ( necnōn ), quīn etiam , itidem ( item ), also.

cum ... tum; tum ... tum, both ... and; not only ... but also.

quā ... quā, on the one hand ... on the other hand.

modo ... modo, now ... now.

aut ... aut; vel ... vel (-ve), either ... or.

sīve ( seu ) ... sīve, whether ... or.

nec ( neque ) ... nec ( neque ); neque ... nec; nec ... neque (rare), neither ... nor.

et ... neque, both ... and not.

nec ... et; nec ( neque ) ... -que, neither (both not) ... and.

b. Adversative

sed , autem , vērum , vērō , at, atquī, but.

tamen , attamen , sed tamen , vērum tamen, but yet, nevertheless.

nihilōminus, none the less.

at vērō, but in truth; enimvērō, for in truth.

cēterum, on the other hand, but.

c. Causal

nam , namque , enim , etenim, for.

quāpropter , quārē , quamobrem , quōcircā, unde, wherefore, whence.

d. Illative

ergō, igitur , itaque , ideō , idcircō , inde , proinde, therefore, accordingly.

1 Some of these have been included in the classification of adverbs. See also list of Correlatives. § 152.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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