ecquisnam

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Latin

Etymology

ecquis (“is there anyone who...?”) +‎ -nam (emphatic)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ecquisnam or ecquīnam (feminine ecquaenam, neuter ecquidnam); indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun with an Indeclinable portion

  1. is there anyone at all who...?, is there anyone whatsoever who...?

Declension

Indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun with an Indeclinable portion.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative ecquisnam
ecquīnam1 		ecquaenam ecquidnam ecquīnam1 ecquaenam
genitive — —
dative eccuinam1 —
accusative ecquemnam ecquamnam ecquidnam ecquōsnam ecquāsnam ecquaenam
ablative ecquōnam
ecquīnam 		ecquānam
ecquīnam 		ecquōnam
ecquīnam 		—
vocative — —

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).

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
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