usquequo

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Latin[edit]

Adverb[edit]

usquequo (not comparable)

  1. (for) how long?
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.9:
      usquequo piger dormīs quandō cōnsurgēs ex somnō tuō
      How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; P.C.N. 1752)
  2. until