quousque Latin · revision 34072

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ It is often written separately, sometimes with words between, and once in reverse order in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|quō|t=whither]] and [[m|la|usque|t=all the way, until]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus asks how long they will go on loving in secret, and has a man asked how long, and answer until death.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a question it is up to what point in time, how long, till when, as in the opening of Cicero's first speech against Catiline, how long will you abuse our patience?^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also how far in space, as Livy's question how far the Romans must advance, and to what degree, as in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a relative it is as far as, as long as, and as much as: the surveyor Balbus, the jurist Paulus and Statius use it so.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is as far as and until.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it how long, how far, until when, to what extent.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, how long?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, how long will you abuse our patience?^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, how far?^(OLD 2012)

+ * 98–117 AD – Balbus, as far as.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(interrogative)'' How long? till when?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(interrogative)'' How far? to what degree?^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(relative)'' As far as; as long as, [[m|en|until]]; as much as.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[usque]]

+ * [[quoad]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}