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quotuscumque

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Latin

Alternative forms

  • quōtuscunque

Etymology

quotus (what number? how many? how few?) + -cumque (suffix forming indefinite adjectives)

Pronunciation

Adjective

quotuscumque (feminine quotacumque, neuter quotumcumque); first/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion

  1. whatsoever in number, order, vel sim.
  2. (poetic) however great or small
    • Tib. 2.6.51–54:
      tunc morior curis, tunc mens mihi perdita fingit, / quisue meam teneat, quot teneatue modis: / tunc tibi, lena, precor diras: satis anxia uiuas, / mouerit e uotis pars quotacumque deos.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion.

See also

More information type, demonstrative ...
typedemonstrativeanaphoricidentityinterrogative/
relative
indefinitenegativeother
proximalmedialdistalrelativeindefinitefree choiceuniversalnegative polarity
basic hiciste, isticille, illicisipse, īdemquis/quīquisquis, quīcumquequis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiamquīvis, quīlibetquisquequisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquamnēmō, nihil, nūllusalius
dual uterutercumquealteruterutervīs, uterlibetuterqueneuteralter
place hīcistīcillīcibī̆ibī̆demubī̆ubiubi, ubī̆cumquealicubī, uspiamubivīs, ubilibetubīqueusquamnusquam, nūllibīalibī, aliās
source hincistincillincindeindidemundeundecumque, undeundealicunde°undelibetundiquealiunde
destination hūc, °hōrsumistūc, °istōrsumillūc, °illōrsumeōdemquō, quōrsumquōquō, quōcumquealiquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsumquōvīs, quōlibetquōquamnusquam, nūllōrsumaliō, aliōrsum
method,
means,
path,
place
hācistācillāceādemquāquāquā, quācumquealiquāquāvīs, quālibetquāquenēquāquam, haudquāquamaliā
manner hōc modōistō modōillō modōita, sīc,
modō
item, itidemut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodumutut, utcumque, quōmodocumquequī, quōdam modō, aliquō modōquōmodolibetutīqueūllō modōnūllō modōaliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time num, nuncōlimtum, tuncsimulquandō, ‡cumcumque, quandōcumque, quandōquequondam, aliquandōquandōlibetquandōqueumquamnumquamaliās
quantity tamtamen, †tandemquamquamquamaliquamquamvīs, quamlibet
size tantustantusdemquantusquantuscumquealiquantusquantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality tālisquālisquālis, quāliscumquealiquālisquālislibet
number tottotidemquotquotquot, quotcumquealiquotquotlibet
order totusquotusquotuscumquealiquotusquotuslibet
repetition totiēnsquotiēnsquotiēnscumquealiquotiēnsquotiēnslibet
multiplication totuplexquotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated
° Rare
‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative
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Further reading

  • quŏtuscumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quōtuscunque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quŏtuscumquĕ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1308/2.

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