qualiscumque Latin · revision 32908

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷaː.lɪsˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷa.lisˈkum.kʷe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quāliscumque''' (neuter quālecumque); third-declension two-termination determiner with an indeclinable portion^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''-cunque'', and its parts can be separated, as in ''quāle id cumque est''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quālis|-cumque|t1=of what kind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary tentatively traces [[m|la|quālis]] to [[ine-pro|*kʷh₂élis]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes that whatever the leading men of a state have been like, such the state has been.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of whatever sort or quality, whatever, as Cicero's he approves what is, whatever it is.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it is whatever someone is like: Cicero says that a person not of just any kind gives weight to testimony.^(OLD 2012) With ''est'' it is often depreciating, such as it is: Cicero says the present state of things, such as it is, can be kept only by concord.^(OLD 2012) Without a verb it acts as an indefinite, any whatever, as in Cicero's letters, and depreciatingly in Propertius' Paris, such as he is in arms.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it of whatever kind, any whatever,^(Stelten 1995) and Wiktionary gives a Late Latin sense any, each without distinction.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in all its main uses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of Paris, such as he is.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Determiner===

+ # Of whatever kind or [[m|en|quality]], whatever.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Such as it is, such as he is (depreciating).^(OLD 2012)

+ # Any whatever;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(Late Latin)'' any, each without distinction.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[qualis|alt=quālis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}