ecquis

== Latin == === Etymology === From ec- + quis. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛk.kʷɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛk.kʷis] === Pronoun === ecquis or ecquī (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquid); interrogative pronoun (in direct questions) Is there anyone who...?, Is there anybody who...? Synonym: num quis Plautus, Menaechmi, actus IV. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. II of five volumes, 1917, p. 432f.: (in indirect questions) whether anyone/anybody Synonym: num quis ==== Usage notes ==== Becomes infrequent after Cicero's era. When used as a pronoun, the nominative singular is usually ecquis. However, the form ecquī occurs as a nominative singular pronoun/substantive in Plautus and in Livy. 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. Only certain forms are well attested in Classical Latin. The dative eccui is rare, being found only twice, in Cicero's Pro Murena and Philippicae, per current editions of these texts. The following forms are unattested in Classical Latin (although some grammars list them and they may perhaps be findable in more recent texts): genitive singular eccuius, masculine/neuter genitive plural ecquōrum, feminine genitive plural ecquārum, dative/ablative plural ecquibus (some grammars list the alternative form ecqueis, i.e. ecquīs). The genitive eccuius occurs in a proposed reading of Boethius's Philosophiae consolatio (where other editions have 'et cuius'). ==== Declension ==== Interrogative pronoun. 1Unattested in classical Latin.2Attested only twice in Classical Latin. === Determiner === ecquis or ecquī (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquod); interrogative pronoun (alternative nominative singular form of determiner ecquī) (is there) any? Plautus, Amphitruo, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 90f.: Plautus, Mostellaria, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. III of five volumes, 1924, p. 324f.: Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber XXIII. In: Livy with an English translation; translated by Frank Gardner Moore, volume VI of thirteen volumes containing books XXIII—XXV, 1940, p. 38–41: Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecologae, ecologa X. In: Virgil with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, vol. I of two volumes, 1916, p. 72f.: ==== Usage notes ==== Forms other than the nominative singular are all shared with equī; see there for quotations. The nominative singular forms can also be used interchangeably. ==== Declension ==== See ecquī. ==== Derived terms ==== ecquid ecquisnam === See also === ecquī aliquis === 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 “ecquis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ecquis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers ecquis in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti “ecquis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Friedrich Neue; C. Wagener (1892), Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache: Adjektiva, Numeralia, Pronomina, Adverbia, Präpositonen, Konjunctionen, Interjectionen, 3rd edition, volume 2, Berlin, page 482