Oxford Latin Dictionary
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quam how
quam is a Latin Adverb that primarily means how.
Definitions for quam
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
how
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
(interr.). (in dir. qu.) To what degree? how? (b) (in indir. qu.; esp. where ~ modifies a vb., this more often represents an original exclamation, see sense 2). (c) scin ~..(colloq.), so you know how..? (used in emphasizing the extent to which an assertion is true; also in iron. echoes of a speaker's words): see SCIO.
- 2
(exclam.) To what an extent! how much! how!
Sentences with quam
Latin to English
Quam brevis erat dulcis vīta eius!Compare How brief was his sweet life!
Quam bene Saturno vivebant rege, priusquam tellus in longas est patefacta vias!Compare How good life was under the rule of Saturn, before the earth was opened for distant voyages!
Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quam diu, curat, cum omnibus possit contingere, ut bene vivant, ut diu, nulli.Compare Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Quam cito ille omnis ex laetitia ad luctus recido, ut, qui paullo ante consul designatus sum, retineo repente nullus vestigium pristinus dignitas!Compare How quickly did all those things fall from gladness to sorrow, so that he, who a short time before had been consul elect, retained on a sudden no vestige of his former dignity!
Omitto quam hic falsus, quam levis.Compare I leave unsaid how false, how trifling these things are.
O miser et infelix dies! o falsus spes! o volucer fortuna! o caecus cupiditas! quam cito ille omnis praetereo!Compare O wretched and unhappy day! O false hope! O fleeting fortune! O blind ambition! how quickly have all those things passed away!
Vos dormio, nec adhuc ego videor intelligo, quam ego pateo, et quam sum imbecillus.Compare You are asleep, and do no even appear to me to understand how open we are to attack, and how weak we are.
Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?Compare How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 107.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1537.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
Bibliography
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Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "quam (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/quam.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.quam on page 107
