adverb
quantō
quantō (not comparable)
Meaning
- interrogativenot comparableby how much
quantō diūtius abest?
how much longer will he be away? - comparativenot comparableby as much as, just as
Coordinate term: tantō
Quanto erat in dies gravior atque asperior oppugnatio, et maxime quod magna parte militum confecta vulneribus res ad paucitatem defensorum pervenerat, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur;[…]
c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 5.4.4
quantō, adv., v. quantus
I. fin. B.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quantō adv.
abl n. of quantus, by how much, by as much as, according as : quanto diutius Abest, magis cupio tanto, the longer he is away , T.: quanto gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores, Cs.: tanto minor, quanto est honestius commoveri: quanto praeclarior vita, tanto, etc., S.: exponere, quanto ante providerit, how long before .
quantō opere (not quantopere), adverb. phrase
quantus+opus, with how great effort, how carefully : illa notiora, quanto se opere custodiant bestiae: quantoque opere eius municipi causā laborarem.— How greatly, how much : dici non potest, quanto opere gaudeant: neque enim tanto opere disputatio desiderata, quanto opere, etc., so eagerly as .
Origins
Adverbial ablative from quantus.