ecquisnam

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Latin

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Etymology

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ecquis (is there anyone who...?) +‎ -nam (emphatic)

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ecquisnam or ecquīnam (feminine ecquaenam, neuter ecquidnam); indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun with an Indeclinable portion

  1. is there anyone at all who...?, is there anyone whatsoever who...?

Declension

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Indeclinable portion with a relative/interrogative pronoun with an Indeclinable portion.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ecquisnam
ecquīnam1
ecquaenam ecquidnam ecquīnam1 ecquaenam
Genitive
Dative eccuinam1
Accusative ecquemnam ecquamnam ecquidnam ecquōsnam ecquāsnam ecquaenam
Ablative ecquōnam
ecquīnam
ecquānam
ecquīnam
ecquōnam
ecquīnam

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).

References

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  • ecquisnam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ecquisnam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers