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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1559.quis on page 1559
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quis? quid? who? what?
quis? quid? is a Latin Pronoun that primarily means who? what?.
Definitions for quis? quid?
Wheelock's Latin
Pronoun
- 1
interrog. pron., who? whose? whom? what? which?
- 2
after sī, nisi, nē, num, indef. pron., anyone, anything, someone
English derivatives:
quiddity quidnunc quip
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Pronoun
- 1
(masc.) What or which person? who? (b) (in indir. questions). (c) (in rhetorical qus.). (d) (applied to females). (e) (in pregn. or emphatic use, alluding to someone's character, position, etc.).
- 2
(neut.) What or which thing? what? (b) (in indir. questions). (c) (in rhetorical questions).
Adverb
- 1
For what reason? why?; quid ita? how so? (b) quid multa? quid plura? why say more. to be brief (see MVLTVS, PLVRES). (c) nec quid nec quare, for no apparent reason, without why or wherefore.
Adjective
- 1
What? which? (for other forms tgan nom. sg. masc., see QVi1). (a) (w. ref. to persons or sim.). (b) (w. ref. to things). (c) (exclam.) what..!
Sentences with quis? quid?
Latin to English
Quis ad nōs eō tempore vēnit?Compare Who came to us at that time?
Quis, hīs perīculīs līberātus, deīs grātiās nōn dabit?Compare Who, when freed from these dangers, will not thank the gods?
Quis imperium accipiēns adiuvāre cīvitātem sōlam, nōn sē, cupit?Compare Who in taking the power desires to help the state alone, not himself?
Quis est quī inter lībertātem et imperium tyrannī dubitet?Compare Who is there who would hesitate between liberty and the command of a tyrant?
Quid est igitur propositum his rei publicae gubernatoribus, quod intueri et quo cursum suum derigere debeant?Compare What then is the objective of those who are at the helm of government, which they should never lose sight of, toward which they ought to set their course?
Quid mirum, noscere mundum si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis, exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva?Compare Who can wonder that the world is known so well by man, since himself is one? The same composure in his form is shewed, and man's the little image of the God.
Quis contra in adulescentia pudor non diligo?Compare Who on the other hand would not love modesty in youth?
Quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim nescio.Compare What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, I do not know.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 125.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1559.
- 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): 119.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "quis? quid? (pron.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/quis-quid.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 125.quis? quid? on page 125
