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Latin
Determiner
ecquī or ecquis (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquod); indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun (interrogative pronoun)
- (determiner) any
- Plautus, Pseudolus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. IV of five volumes, 1930, p. 200f.:
Ecquas viginti minas
paritas ut auferas a me?- And you are making ready to get eighty pounds out of me ?
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Ex Ponto, liber IV. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 464f.:
ecquos tu silices, ecquod, carissime, ferrum
duritiae confers, Albinovane, meae ?- Can you compare any flint, Albinovanus, any iron to my endurance ?
- (pronoun) anyone, anything
- Plautus, Stichus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. V of five volumes, 1952, p. 28f.:
qui cena poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?- Who offers a dinner? (silence) Anyone offer a lunch? (more silence)
Usage notes
- Normatively, ecquī is a determiner (used adjectivally) and ecquis is a pronoun (used substantively), but the opposite usages can be found, even among the best Classical writers.
- ecquī is attested in the plural.
Declension
Indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun.
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
References
- “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.