nusquam Latin · revision 30831

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnʊs.kʷãː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnus.kʷam]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nusquam''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|ne-|usquam|t1=not|t2=anywhere]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan takes [[m|la|usquam]] as probably ⟨*us⟩, an extended form of [[m|la|ut|t=as, so that]], with the indefinite [[m|la|-quam]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Persa'': ''quaesīvī, nusquam repperī'', “I searched, and found him nowhere”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in no place, nowhere, also “nowhere to be seen” (Plautus: where's your master? — nowhere, I don't know), and with verbs of motion to no place.^(OLD 2012) ''Nōn nusquam'' is “in some places” and ''nusquam nōn'' “everywhere”.^(OLD 2012) ''Nusquam esse'' is not to exist (Plautus: he gapes after what is nowhere), to be dead (Horace: is my friend Dama no more?), and in law to have no validity.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is in no thing or person (Cicero: we can find advantage nowhere but in what is honourable), at no time, never, and ''nusquam aliō quam'' “for no other purpose than” (Livy).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “on no occasion, nowhere, at no time, never”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus in the senses “nowhere” and “never”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in a figurative sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace: ''nusquam est'', “he is dead”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|nowhere]], in no place; to no place.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(nusquam esse)'' Not to exist; to be dead;^(OLD 2012) ''(law)'' to have no validity.^(OLD 2012)

+ # In nothing, in no one.^(OLD 2012)

+ # On no occasion, [[m|en|never]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(nusquam aliō quam)'' For no other purpose than.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nōnnusquam]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[usquam]]

+ * [[ubīque]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}