ubicumque Latin · revision 31552

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ʊ.bɪˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ], [ʊ.biːˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [u.biˈkum.kʷe], [u.biˈkum.kʷe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ubicumque''' or ubīcumque (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''ubicunque'', and Old Latin has ''-quomque'', which Plautus separates from ''ubi'' by other words.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ubī|-cumque|t1=where]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨ubī⟩ from [[itc-pro|*kʷuþei]] and [[ine-pro|*kʷu-dʰi|t=where]], cognate with [[osc|puf|t=where]], [[xum|pufe|t=where]], [[sa|कुह|tr=kúha|t=where]] and [[cu|къде|tr=kŭde|t=where]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whom a slave, asked where he will be, answers “wherever I please”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a relative, “in whatever place, wherever”, and also indefinite, “anywhere at all” or “somewhere or other”: Horace says losing one's good name is bad anywhere, and Seneca that one must die somewhere, some time.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for “wherever, wheresoever”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace in the sense “anywhere”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca in the sense “somewhere”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In whatever place, [[m|en|wherever]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # In any place whatever; somewhere or other.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ubī]]

+ * [[ubīque]]

+ * [[quandōque]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}