ecqui

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From ec- + quī. ==== Determiner ==== ecquī or ecquei or ecquis (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquod); indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative determiner (determiner, used in direct questions) (is/are/does/do) ... any ...? (determiner, used in indirect questions) whether any (pronoun, used in direct questions) anyone, anything? (pronoun, used in indirect questions) whether anyone, anything ===== Usage notes ===== Becomes infrequent after Cicero's era. The nominative singular ecquī is usually a determiner (used adjectivally), but can also be found used as a pronoun/substantive in Plautus and in Livy. However, the nominative singular of the pronoun is more often ecquis. ===== Declension ===== Indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative determiner. 1Republican Latin.2Quī is occasionally used as an ablative singular, whence quīcum (“with whom”); it was originally preferred in instrumental meanings. The declension is similar to aliquī. In particular, the feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural forms are normally ecqua, but ecquae is also found. The feminine nominative plural can only be ecquae. The following forms are unattested in Classical Latin, although they may possibly be found in more recent texts: genitive singular eccuius, masculine/neuter genitive plural ecquōrum, feminine genitive plural ecquārum, dative/ablative plural ecquibus. ==== See also ==== ecquis === Etymology 2 === From ec- + quī (adverb). ==== Adverb ==== ecquī (not comparable) (used in direct questions) In any way? (used in indirect questions) whether in any way === References === === Further reading === “ecquis, ecqui, ecquae, ecqua, ecquid, ecquod” in volume 5, part 2, column 51, line 77 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present “ecqui”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ecqui”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers ecqui in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti “ecqui”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 570.