numquid
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From num (“whether, if”) + quid (“something”).
Adverb[edit]
numquid (not comparable)
- is it possible?
- surely not?
- 52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus 2.4.15:
- Numquid duās habētis patriās, an est ūna illa patria communis?
References[edit]
- “numquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “numquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- numquid in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.