umquam

== Latin == === Alternative forms === unquam (later) === Etymology === Perhaps from *quomquam, from quom (later cum) and quam (“any”). Compare cumque, ultimately from cum +‎ -quam (“any”). For the loss of the initial velar, see ubi. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊŋ.kʷãː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈum.kʷam] === Adverb === umquam (not comparable) (chiefly in the negative) at any time, ever; (with negative) never ==== Usage notes ==== Most frequently in negative clauses, sometimes also in interrogations and in conditional clauses; but very seldom in affirmations ==== Synonyms ==== quandō (following sī or num) ==== Derived terms ==== numquam *dunquam ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== (Note: several forms reflect the addition of an adverbial /-s/.) === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ŭmquam”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 26 === Further reading === “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “umquam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.