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quisquis, quidquid whoever
quisquis, quidquid is a Latin Pronoun that primarily means whoever.
Definitions for quisquis, quidquid
Wheelock's Latin
Pronoun
- 1
indef. pron, whoever, whatever
- 2
quis repeated; cases other than nom. rare.
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Pronoun
- 1
(indefinite rel, pron., masc.) Anyone who, everyone who, whoever.
- 2
(neut.) Anything that, all that, whatever. (b) (w. part. gen.) (c) quiqui, at whatever price.
Adjective
- 1
Any-that, whatever-. (b) (w. ellipsis of vb.) whatever is possible, any or every conceivable; usu. in phrs. quoquo modo, quoquo pacto.
- 2
(without rel. force) Any single, any particular.
Sentences with quisquis, quidquid
Latin to English
Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs er dōna ferentēs. (Vergil, Aeneid II.49)Compare Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts.
Quisquis Flaminiam teris viator, noli nobile praeterire marmor.Compare Whoe'er thou art, traveller, that treadest the Flaminian Way, give heed not to pass by a noble monument.
Dicendum mihi: "quisquis es, mundum quem coluit, mens tua perdidit. non sunt illa Dei, quae studuit, cuius habeberis."Compare It is time I said to myself: "Whoever you may be, your soul has lost the world it loved; all the things it pursued do not belong to God, who is to judge you."
Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur; quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.Compare Let us follow our destiny, ebb or flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by fully accepting it.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 151.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1563.
- 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.
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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.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "quisquis, quidquid (pron.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 31, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/quisquis-quidquid.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 151.quisquis, quidquid on page 151
