cuias

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cuius +‎ -ās (gentilic suffix).

Pronunciation

The stress lies on the final syllable—an exception to the usual Latin stress rule—as a result of the contraction from -ātis.

Adjective

cuiās (genitive cuiātis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. whence?, of what country?, from what place?, of what people?, of which kin?
    • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.108:
      Socrates quidem cum rogaretur, cuiatem se esse diceret, 'mundanum' inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur.
      Socrates, when asked where he would say he was from; said "from the world"; for he judged himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative cuiās cuiātēs cuiātia
genitive cuiātis cuiātium
dative cuiātī cuiātibus
accusative cuiātem cuiās cuiātēs cuiātia
ablative cuiātī cuiātibus
vocative cuiās cuiātēs cuiātia

References

  • “cuias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cuias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.


Portuguese

Noun

cuias

  1. plural of cuia
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