unusquisque

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ūnus +‎ quisque.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ūnusquisque m (feminine ūnaquaeque, neuter ūnumquidque)

  1. each one; every single one
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, I Corinthios 7:2, page 1775:
      propter fornicātiōnem autem ūnusquisque suam uxōrem habeat, et ūnaquaeque suum virum habeat.
      But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
    • Appius Claudius Caecus:
      Est ūnus quisque faber ipsae suae fortūnae
      Every one is a maker of his own fortune

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension) with a relative/interrogative determiner with an indeclinable portion, singular only.

singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ūnusquisque ūnaquaeque ūnumquidque
genitive ūnī̆uscuiusque1
dative ūnīcuique1
accusative ūnumquemque ūnamquamque ūnumquidque
ablative ūnōquōque ūnāquāque ūnōquōque
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).

Descendants

  • {{desc|sc-old|uniskis|unukis[1]

Adjective

ūnusquisque m (feminine ūnaquaeque, neuter ūnumquodque)

  1. each; every single

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension) with a relative/interrogative determiner with an indeclinable portion.

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).

References

  • unusquisque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • unusquisque”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Bonfante, Giuliano; Bonfante, Larissa (1999), The Origin of the Romance Languages, page 100