quonam Latin · revision 33769

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quō|nam|t1=whither|t2=for, indeed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first:^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Trinummus'' one character asks another where he is going, and the answer is ''quonam, nisi domum?'', “where else but home?”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It asks “where ever?” with some insistence.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero asks in a letter where he would be going if he followed, and Caesar asks to what end all this tends but his ruin.^(Lewis & Short 1879) From place it passes to the point or result something leads to: Cicero asks where young men who see these things will turn their minds.^(OLD 2012) With ''usque'' it asks how much longer or how far, as in Statius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “where else but home?”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of where young men will turn their minds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, “to what end?”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius, ''quonam usque'', “how much longer?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # To what place ever? where on earth? [[m|en|whither]], pray?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To what action, condition or result?^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''quōnam usque'': how much longer? how far?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quō]]

+ * [[nam]]

+ * [[quōrsum]]

+ * [[ubinam]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}