quinam
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷiː.nam/, [ˈkʷiːnä̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwi.nam/, [ˈkwiːnäm]
Etymology 1
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]quīnam
Usage notes
[edit]- quīnam is used adjectivally, and also substantivally:[1]
- Plautus, Bacchides, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 352f.:
- sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?
- But there goes our door! Wonder who's coming out.
- sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?
- Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber X. In: Livy with an English translation by B. O. Foster vol. IV of thirtheen volumes containing books VIII–X, 1926, p. 480f.:
- Quinam sit ille, quem non pigeat longinquitatis bellorum scribendo legendoque, quae gerentes non fatigaverunt ?
- Who, pray, could grudge the time for writing or reading of these wars, when they could not exhaust the men who fought them ?
- Quinam sit ille, quem non pigeat longinquitatis bellorum scribendo legendoque, quae gerentes non fatigaverunt ?
- Ammianus Marcellinus, rerum gestarum libri, liber XV. In: Ammianus Marcellinus with an English translation by John C. Rolfe, vol. I of three volumes, 1935, p. 174f.:
- Tunc anus quaedam orba luminibus, cum percontando quinam esset ingressus, Iulianum Caesarem conperisset. exclamavit hunc deorum templa reparaturum.
- Then an old woman, who had lost her sight, on inquiring who had entered and learning that it was the Caesar Julian, cried out that he would repair the temples of the Gods.
- Tunc anus quaedam orba luminibus, cum percontando quinam esset ingressus, Iulianum Caesarem conperisset. exclamavit hunc deorum templa reparaturum.
- Plautus, Bacchides, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 352f.:
Declension
[edit]Relative/interrogative pronoun with an indeclinable portion.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | quīnam | quaenam | quodnam | quīnam1 | quaenam | ||
| genitive | cuiusnam1 | quōrumnam | quārumnam | quōrumnam | |||
| dative | cuinam1 | quibusnam | |||||
| accusative | quemnam | quamnam | quodnam | quōsnam | quāsnam | quaenam | |
| ablative | quōnam | quānam | quōnam | quibusnam | |||
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).
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Numeral
[edit]quīnam
References
[edit]- “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Friedrich Neue, Formenlehre der Lateinischen Sprache, 2nd part, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1875, p. 241.: "Quisnam steht substantivisch Horat. Serm. 2, 3, 158. 2, 7, 83, [more references]; aber auch quisnam exitus futurus esset Cic. Cluent. 23, 63, [more cites]. Dagegen quinam homo Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 17, [more cites]; und substantivisch quinam exit foras Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 56, [more cites]."
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]quinam