quotuscumque
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editquotus (“what number? how many? how few?”) + -cumque (suffix forming indefinite adjectives)
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷo.tusˈkun.kʷe/, [kʷɔt̪ʊs̠ˈkʊŋkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwo.tusˈkum.kwe/, [kwot̪usˈkumkwe]
Adjective
editquotuscumque (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:[1]
- 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
editFirst/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | quotuscumque | quotacumque | quotumcumque | quotīcumque | quotaecumque | quotacumque | |
genitive | quotīcumque | quotaecumque | quotīcumque | quotōrumcumque | quotārumcumque | quotōrumcumque | |
dative | quotōcumque | quotaecumque | quotōcumque | quotīscumque | |||
accusative | quotumcumque | quotamcumque | quotumcumque | quotōscumque | quotāscumque | quotacumque | |
ablative | quotōcumque | quotācumque | quotōcumque | quotīscumque | |||
vocative | quotecumque | quotacumque | quotumcumque | quotīcumque | quotaecumque | quotacumque |
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “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.