quantuluscumque Latin · revision 33930

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quantuluscumque''' (feminine quantulacumque, neuter quantulumcumque); first/second-declension adjective with an indeclinable portion^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quantulus|-cumque|t1=how small]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|quantulus]] is the diminutive of [[m|la|quantus|t=how great]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in a letter to Atticus asks him to see that someone does not touch the Precian inheritance, however small it is.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ With a relative clause it means however small or however little: Cicero in ''De oratore'' speaks of his own ability, such as it is, and in the ''Orator'' says that he, whoever he was and however little he said, first turned Roman ears to such studies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With nouns it means of however small a size: Ovid advises a short woman to recline on her couch, however small.^(OLD 2012) As a neuter noun it is any amount however small: Seneca does not think a man poor who has anything at all left.^(OLD 2012) Columella and Juvenal use it as well.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a small inheritance and of his own ability.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a small couch.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of any amount however small.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # However small, however [[m|en|little]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(neuter as noun)'' however little an amount.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of however small a size or degree;^(OLD 2012) ''(neuter as noun)'' the smallest amount, any amount at all.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quantulus]]

+ * [[quantuscumque]]

+ * [[quantus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}