numquis
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Univerbation of num + quis. Compare aliquis, sīquis, nēquis. Often written with a space as num quis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnʊŋ.kʷɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnum.kʷis]
Pronoun
numquis
- (in a direct or indirect question; usually expecting a negation) any, anyone, anything
- c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 1) 3.35:
- Dēnique tē ipsum / concute, numqua tibī vitiōrum īnsēverit ōlim / nātūra aut etiam cōnsuētūdō mala
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Dēnique tē ipsum / concute, numqua tibī vitiōrum īnsēverit ōlim / nātūra aut etiam cōnsuētūdō mala
- 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 283:
- Numquem evocari hinc vis foras?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Numquem evocari hinc vis foras?
Declension
Indefinite pronoun.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | numquis numquī1 |
numqua numquae |
numquid | numquī1 | numquae | numqua numquae | |
| genitive | — | — | |||||
| dative | numcui1 | numquibus numquīs1 | |||||
| accusative | numquem | numquam | numquid | numquōs | numquās | numqua numquae | |
| ablative | numquō numquī |
numquā numquī |
numquō numquī |
numquibus numquīs1 | |||
| vocative | — | — | |||||
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
References
- “numquis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “numquis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.