quivis

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Latin

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Etymology

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From quī +‎ vīs.

Pronoun

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quīvīs (feminine quaevīs, neuter quidvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

  1. whoever you will, anyone, anything
  2. whatever (you will), whatsoever

Declension

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Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative quīvīs quaevīs quidvīs quīvīs1 quaevīs
Genitive cuiusvīs1 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
quārunvīs
quārumvīs
quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
Dative cuivīs1 quibusvīs
quīsvīs1
Accusative quenvīs
quemvīs
quanvīs
quamvīs
quidvīs quōsvīs quāsvīs quaevīs
Ablative quōvīs quāvīs quōvīs quibusvīs
quīsvīs1

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).

Determiner

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quīvis (feminine quaevīs, neuter quodvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

  1. whichever, whatever (person or thing)

Usage notes

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  • The pronoun is used in place of a noun, while the determiner is used in place of an adjective (e.g. whichever man, whatever speech). The declensions differ only in the neuter nominative/accusative singular: quidvīs as a pronoun, quodvīs as a determiner.

Declension

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Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative quīvis quaevīs quodvīs quīvīs1 quaevīs
Genitive cuiusvīs1 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
quārunvīs
quārumvīs
quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
Dative cuivīs1 quibusvīs
quīsvīs1
Accusative quenvīs
quemvīs
quanvīs
quamvīs
quodvīs quōsvīs quāsvīs quaevīs
Ablative quōvīs quāvīs quōvīs quibusvīs
quīsvīs1

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).

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See also

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References

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  • quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quivis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque

Portuguese

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Noun

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quivis

  1. plural of quivi