quidquid
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷɪk.kʷɪd]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷid̪.kʷid̪]
Pronoun
quidquid n
- whatever
- quidquid id est, Whatever it is
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.49:
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even if they are bearing gifts.
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- quidquid id est, Whatever it is
- whoever it be, everything, anything
Declension
Relative/interrogative pronoun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | quidquid quicquid |
quaequae |
| genitive | cuiuscuius | quōrumquōrum |
| dative | cuicui | quibusquibus quīsquīs |
| accusative | quidquid quicquid |
quaequae |
| ablative | quōquō | quibusquibus quīsquīs |
| vocative | quidquid quicquid |
quaequae |
Related terms
References
- “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “quidquid”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.