doquiera

Spanish

Alternative forms

• doquier

Etymology

From Old Spanish do (“where”) +‎ quiera (“it may want”) with do being a contraction of de (“of”) +‎ o (“in where”), from ubi (“where?”). o has been displaced by donde (from Latin dē (“from”) + unde (“whence”)) in Modern Spanish (hence dondequiera).

Adverb

doquiera

1. (dated) everywhere

   Synonym: dondequiera

   Doquiera vas, traes desastres.

   Everywhere you go, you bring disasters.

   • 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:

     Fablad doquiera vos vayáis.

     Speak everywhere ye go.

2. (dated) wherever (when used with que)

   Synonym: dondequiera que

   Doquiera que vos vayáis, yo estaré convusco.

   Wherever ye go, I shall be with you.

   • 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:

     Toda la maldat del mundo es doquiera que tu seas.

     All the evil in the world is wherever you are.

Usage notes

• Doquiera and Doquier are rarely used and have been replaced by dondequiera and dondequiera que.
• Both terms are still used in the expression por doquier (“everywhere, all over the place”)

Derived terms

• por doquier
• por doquiera

 

See also

• dondequiera
• por doquiera

Further reading

• “doquiera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014