ecquisnam
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== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
ec- + quis (“is there anyone who...?”) + -nam (emphatic)
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈkʷɪs.nãː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈkʷiz.nam]
=== Pronoun ===
ecquisnam or ecquīnam or ecqueinam (feminine ecquaenam, neuter ecquidnam); indeclinable portion with an interrogative/indefinite pronoun with an Indeclinable portion
is there anyone at all who...?, is there anyone whatsoever who...?
==== Declension ====
Indeclinable portion with an interrogative/indefinite pronoun with an Indeclinable portion.
1Republican Latin.2Quī is occasionally used as an ablative singular, whence quīcum (“with whom”); it was originally preferred in instrumental meanings.
=== References ===
“ecquisnam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ecquisnam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers