quantuscumque Latin · revision 31359

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la quantus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷan.tʊsˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷan.tusˈkum.kʷe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quantuscumque''' (feminine quantacumque, neuter quantumcumque); first/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''quantuscunque''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|quantus|-cumque|t1=how great|t2=-ever]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who says “I, such as I am, however fit to judge, judge without any doubt” in the ''De oratore''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of whatever size, amount or degree, however great or small, as Cicero's money, however much it is, of a kind that seems saved rather than seized, and of persons in ability or character.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The neuter ''quantumcumque'' is “however much, whatever”, as in the ''Culex'', and adverbially “to whatever degree”, as Ovid's “as far as my praises can avail”; the genitive ''quanticumque'' is “at whatever price”, as Juvenal's “whatever the house cost, someone will come to lay the dishes skilfully”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of judging and of money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of praises.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal: ''quanticumque''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # However great (or small), of whatever size or degree.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(neuter)'' However much, whatever;^(OLD 2012) ''(adverbial)'' to whatever degree.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''quanticumque'', at whatever price.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quantus]]

+ * [[quīcumque]]

+ * [[quālis]]

+ * [[quantuslibet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}