numquid

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Latin

Etymology

From num (“whether, if”) + quid (“something”).

Adverb

numquid (not comparable)

  1. is it possible?
  2. surely not?
    • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 828:
      Numquid nam tibi molestum est, gnāte mī, si haec nunc mēcum accubat?
    • 52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus 2.4.15:
      Numquid duās habētis patriās, an est ūna illa patria communis?
    • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Saturae 1.4.52:
      numquid Pompōnius istīs
      audīret leviōra, pater sī vīveret?

References

  • “numquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “numquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • numquid in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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