quamquam

Reduplication of quam. The original meaning was hypothetically “how(much)ever”; compare quisquis (“whoever”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaŋ.kʷãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaŋ.kʷam]

quamquam

1. though, although, albeit
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.393–394:

     At pius Aenēās, quamquam lēnīre dolentem
     sōlandō cupit et dictīs āvertere cūrās, [...].

     But dutiful Aeneas, although he desires to relieve [Dido’s] grief by comforting her, and say more to turn aside her anguish, [...].

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.13:

     […] ; quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]

     […] ; though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and […]

1. etsi, tamen

• → Esperanto: kvankam (learned)

• “quamquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quamquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quamquam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

quamquam

1. accusative feminine singular of quisquis