qualiscumque
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷaː.lisˈkum.kʷe/, [kʷäːlʲɪs̠ˈkʊŋkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwa.lisˈkum.kwe/, [kwälisˈkumkwe]
Determiner
[edit]quāliscumque (neuter quālecumque); third-declension two-termination determiner with an indeclinable portion.
- of what quality soever, of whatever kind, whatsoever sort
- Hospitalis tibi illa qualiscumque sedes erit.
- Any sort of place there will be hospitable to you. (Seneca, Epistulae Morales, III,28)
- . any, each without distinction (transferred, Late Latin)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective with an indeclinable portion.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque | |
genitive | quāliscumque | quāliumcumque | |||
dative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
accusative | quālemcumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque quālīscumque |
quāliacumque | |
ablative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
vocative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque |
Descendants
[edit]- → Old French: quelesquunques
- French: quelconque
References
[edit]- “qualiscumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press