quotuscumque
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Latin
Alternative forms
- quōtuscunque
Etymology
quotus (“what number? how many? how few?”) + -cumque (suffix forming indefinite adjectives)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷo.tusˈkum.kʷe/, [kʷɔt̪ʊs̠ˈkʊŋkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwo.tusˈkum.kwe/, [kwot̪usˈkumkwe]
Adjective
quotuscumque (feminine quotacumque, neuter quotumcumque); first/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion
- whatsoever in number, order, vel sim.
- (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)
- 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.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion.
See also
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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