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Latin
Etymology
From cuius + -ās (gentilic suffix).
Pronunciation
The stress fell on the final syllable—an exception to the usual Latin stress rule—as a result of the contraction from -ātis.
Adjective
cuiās (genitive cuiātis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- whence?, of what country?, from what place?, of what people?, of which kin?
c. 45 BCE,
Cicero,
Tusculan Disputations 5.108:
- Socrates quidem cum rogaretur, cuiatem se esse diceret, 'mundanum' inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur.
- Socrates, when asked where he would say he was from; said "from the world"; for he judged himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
References
- “cuias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Noun
cuias
- plural of cuia