qualiscumque
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʷaː.lɪsˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kʷa.lisˈkum.kʷe]
Determiner
quāliscumque (neuter quālecumque); third-declension two-termination determiner with an indeclinable portion.
- of what quality soever, of whatever kind, whatsoever sort
- Hospitalis tibi illa qualiscumque sedes erit.
- Any sort of place there will be hospitable to you. (Seneca, Epistulae Morales, III,28)
- . any, each without distinction (transferred, Late Latin)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective with an indeclinable portion.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque | |
genitive | quāliscumque | quāliumcumque | |||
dative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
accusative | quālemcumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque quālīscumque |
quāliacumque | |
ablative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
vocative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque |
Descendants
- → Old French: quelesquunques
- French: quelconque
References
- “qualiscumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press