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English
Noun
ques
- plural of que
Latin
Pronoun
quēs m pl or f pl (neuter plural qua, indefinite pronoun)
- (Old Latin) any
- senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus:
- SEI·QVES
ESENT·QVEI·SIBEI·DEICERENT·NECESVS·ESE·BACANAL·HABERE·EEIS·VTEI·AD·PR·VRBANVM
ROMAM·VENIRENT·DEQVE·EEIS·REBVS·VBEI·EORVM·VTR A ·AVDITA·ESENT·VTEI·SENATVS
NOSTER·DECERNERET·DVM·NE·MINVS·SENATORBVS ·C·ADESENT· A RES·COSOLORETVR
- if there are any who claim that it is necessary for them to have such a place, they are to come to Rome to the praetor urbanus, and the senate is to decide on those matters, when their claims have been heard, provided that not less than 100 senators are present when the affair is discussed.
- SEI·QVES·ESENT·QVEI·ARVORSVM·EAD·FECISENT·QVAM·SVPRAD
SCRIPTVM·EST·EEIS·REM·CAPVTALEM·FACIENDAM·CENSVERE
- if there are any who have acted contrary to what was written above, they have decided that a proceeding for a capital offense should be instituted against them;
- ATQVE
VTEI·EA·BACANALIA·SEI·QVA·SVNT·EXSTRAD·QVAM·SEI·QVID·IBEI·SACRI·EST
ITA·VTEI·SVPRAD·SCRIPTVM·EST·IN·DIEBVS·X·QVIBVS·VOBEIS·TABELAI·DATAI
ERVNT·FACIATIS·VTEI·DISMOTA·SIENT
- see to it that the revelries of Bacchus, if there be any, except in case there be concerned in the matter something sacred, as was written above, be disbanded within ten days after this letter shall be delivered to you.
See also
References
- “quis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“qui”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1303 & 1304.
- ^ Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, vol. I pars II, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1918, p. 437, § 581
- ^ The Library of Original Sources. The ideas that have influenced civilization, in the original documents—translated. University Edition. Edited by Oliver J. Thatcher. Assisted by more than One Hundred European and American Scholars. Volume III, p. 76–77, translated by Nina E. Weston
Zoogocho Zapotec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish queso.
Noun
ques
- cheese
References
- Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38) (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 268