ecqui

== Latin == === Etymology === ec- +‎ quī === Determiner === ecquī or ecquis (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquod); indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative determiner (interrogative pronoun) (determiner) any (pronoun) 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. ecquī is attested in the plural. ==== Declension ==== Indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative determiner. 1In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi or quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis). 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 ecquandō === 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.