quinam Latin · revision 30942

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkʷiː.nãː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkʷiː.nam]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīnam''', quaenam, quodnam (interrogative)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from the interrogative [[m|la|quī|t=which, what]] and the emphatic particle [[m|la|nam]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan takes ⟨nam⟩ as perhaps an old feminine accusative of a stem [[itc-pro|*no/e-|t=that]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Aulularia'': ''quīnam homō hīc ante aedīs nostrās ēiulāns conquerītur?'', “who on earth is this man wailing outside our house?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an emphatic interrogative, “which, what (tell me)?”, and Plautus also uses the masculine as “who, tell me?”, as ''quīnam ā nōbīs exit?'', “who's that coming out of our house?”.^(OLD 2012) It also asks of kind or degree, as Apuleius' challenge to name what witnesses were present.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it chiefly early Latin, citing Plautus and Accius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin has it as “which, what”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus in questions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Pronoun===

+ # ''(interrogative adjective)'' Which, what (pray)?^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(masculine nominative)'' Who (pray)?^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quī]]

+ * [[quisnam]]

+ * [[nam]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}