quinam

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See quī, nam.

Pronoun

quīnam

  1. who, which, what (interrogative)
Usage notes
  • quīnam is used adjectivally, and also substantivally:[1]
    • Plautus, Bacchides, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 352f.:
      sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?
      But there goes our door! Wonder who's coming out.
    • Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber X. In: Livy with an English translation by B. O. Foster vol. IV of thirtheen volumes containing books VIII–X, 1926, p. 480f.:
      Quinam sit ille, quem non pigeat longinquitatis bellorum scribendo legendoque, quae gerentes non fatigaverunt ?
      Who, pray, could grudge the time for writing or reading of these wars, when they could not exhaust the men who fought them ?
    • Ammianus Marcellinus, rerum gestarum libri, liber XV. In: Ammianus Marcellinus with an English translation by John C. Rolfe, vol. I of three volumes, 1935, p. 174f.:
      Tunc anus quaedam orba luminibus, cum percontando quinam esset ingressus, Iulianum Caesarem conperisset. exclamavit hunc deorum templa reparaturum.
      Then an old woman, who had lost her sight, on inquiring who had entered and learning that it was the Caesar Julian, cried out that he would repair the temples of the Gods.
Declension

Relative/interrogative pronoun with an indeclinable portion.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative quīnam quaenam quodnam quīnam1 quaenam
genitive cuiusnam1 quōrumnam quārumnam quōrumnam
dative cuinam1 quibusnam
accusative quemnam quamnam quodnam quōsnam quāsnam quaenam
ablative quōnam quānam quōnam quibusnam

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).

Descendants
  • Catalan: quin
  • Franco-Provençal: quint (through confusion with quantus)
  • Occitan: quin

Etymology 2

Numeral

quīnam

  1. accusative feminine singular of quīnus

References

  • “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quinam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Friedrich Neue, Formenlehre der Lateinischen Sprache, 2nd part, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1875, p. 241.: "Quisnam steht substantivisch Horat. Serm. 2, 3, 158. 2, 7, 83, ; aber auch quisnam exitus futurus esset Cic. Cluent. 23, 63, . Dagegen quinam homo Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 17, ; und substantivisch quinam exit foras Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 56, ."

Portuguese

Verb

quinam

  1. third-person plural present indicative of quinar
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