quoniam

quoniam (plural quoniams)

1. (slang, obsolete) A kind of drinking-cup.

Borrowed from Latin quoniam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku̯oni̯am/, /ˈkvoni̯am/

quoniam

1. (neologism, rare) since, as, seeing that, inasmuch as, considering

   Synonyms: pro ke, ja ke

   *Quoniam el esis nefidela, il abandonis el.

   Since she was unfaithful, he abandoned her.

A more recently coined word, *quoniam has been introduced by some speakers to compliment pro ke. The intended difference is that the former introduces the cause, reason or motive, while the latter reveals it. The other way to express the example above using pro ke would be: Il abandonis el, pro ke el esis nefidela. But, the best way to express the example above is using ja ke: Ja ke el esis nefidela, il abandonis el.

Univerbation of quom +‎ iam.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔ.ni.ãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɔː.ni.am]

quoniam (+ ind)

1. since, forasmuch, inasmuch as, now that
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:18

     Quoniam fīliī sānctōrum sumus et vītam illam expectāmus quam Deus datūrus est hīs quī fidem suam numquam mūtant ab eō.

     For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.

• → Catalan: quòniam (learned)

• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quoniam", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quoniam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin quoniam (“since”), probably as an educated respelling/euphemism of Old French conin (“coney, rabbit”). Compare queynte and cunt.

quoniam

1. The vulva.
   • c. 1380-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologe of the Wyves Tale of Bathe, ll. 607–8 (ed. Skeat):

     And trewely, as myne housbondes toldë me,
     I had the bestë quoniam mightë be.

     And truely, as my husband told me, I had the best vulva might be.