quiviscumque
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From quī + vīs + cumque; compare quīvīs and quīcumque.
Pronoun[edit]
quīvīscumque m (feminine quaevīscumque, neuter quodvīscumque)
Usage notes[edit]
- In Titus Lucretius Carus' de rerum natura libri the form cujusviscumque and in Marcus Valerius Martialis' epigrammaton libri the form quoviscumque appear. However, this depends on edition as it is also spelled cuiusvis cumque and quo vis cumque respectively.[1][2] F. Neue cites it as "repentis itum cuius vis cumque animantis Lucr. 3, 388" and "quo vis cumque loco Mart. 14, 1 a", and explains it as split forms of quīcumque.[3]
Declension[edit]
Relative/interrogative pronoun with an indeclinable portion.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quīvīscumque1 quisvīscumque |
quaevīscumque quavīscumque2 |
quodvīscumque | quīvīscumque1 | quaevīscumque | quaevīscumque quavīscumque2 | |
| Genitive | cuiusvīscumque1 | quōrumvīscumque | quārumvīscumque | quōrumvīscumque | |||
| Dative | cuivīscumque1 | quibusvīscumque quīsvīscumque1 | |||||
| Accusative | quemvīscumque | quamvīscumque | quodvīscumque | quōsvīscumque | quāsvīscumque | quaevīscumque quavīscumque2 | |
| Ablative | quōvīscumque | quāvīscumque | quōvīscumque | quibusvīscumque quīsvīscumque1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi or quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).
2When used as an indefinite word (pronoun or adjective), the feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural is usually qua (with short ă) instead of quae. Indefinite quă is generally only found directly after sī, nisi, num, or nē and may be considered to be either enclitic to the preceding word or (in Priscian's view) forming a compound with it; accordingly, sīqua, numqua, and nēqua are sometimes written together (as also are the masculines sīquis, numquis, and nēquis). The form quă is never used for the feminine plural, nor for any form of the relative pronoun or of the interrogative pronoun or adjective.
References[edit]
- “quīvis-cumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quiviscumque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1305.
- ^ Lukrez: Von der Natur. Lateinisch-deutsch. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Hermann Diels. 3rd edition, 2013, p. 224, line 388: "nec repentis itum cuiusvis cumque animantis"
- ^ Marcus Valerius Martialis, epigrammaton libri, liber XIV. In: Martial Epigrams with an English translation by Walter C. A. Ker, vol. II of two volumes, 1920, p. 442f.:
- Quo vis cumque loco potes hunc finire libellum :
versibus explicitumst omne duobus opus.- You can finish this little book at whatever point you like ; every subject is summed up in two verses.
- Quo vis cumque loco potes hunc finire libellum :
- ^ Friedrich Neue, Formenlehre der Lateinischen Sprache, 2nd part, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1875, p. 240f.: "In quicumque kann cumque von qui getrennt werden. [cites]. So auch repentis itum cuius vis cumque animantis Lucr. 3, 388, und quo vis cumque loco Mart. 14, 1 a."