Appendix:Latin correlatives
Appearance
Latin has a number of correlative pro-words and phrases.
Main correlative terms
[edit]Dual correlatives
[edit]| type | interrogative | indefinite | irrealis | alternative | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| irrelative / emphatic | relative | irrelative | free choice | universal | negative | |||
| dual | uternam | uter | utercumque | alteruter | utervīs uterlibet |
uterque | neuter | alter |
| comparative | utrī̆usnammodī | utrī̆usmodī | utrī̆usvīsmodī utrī̆uslibetmodī |
utrī̆usquemodī | neutrī̆usmodī | alterī̆usmodī | ||
| alternation | utrumnam | utrum | utrumcumque | alterutrum | utrumvīs utrumlibet |
utrumque | neutrum | alterum |
| place time |
utrās °utribi |
utrāscumque | alterutrās | utrāsvīs utrāslibet |
utrāsque | neutrās | alterās | |
| source | °utrim °utrinde utrīnsecus |
alterutrim | °utrimvīs °utrimlibet |
utrimque utrimquesecus |
°neutrim neutrīnsecus |
°alterim altrīnsecus | ||
| destination | utrō | utrōcumque | alterutrō | utrōvīs utrōlibet |
utrōque | neutrō | alterō | |
| path | utrā | utrācumque | alterutrā | utrāvīs utrālibet |
utrāque | neutrā | alterā | |
| manner | utrō modō | utrōvīs modō utrōlibet modō |
utrōque modō | alterō modō | ||||
| comparative (quantity) | °utria | |||||||
| ° Rare | ||||||||
Size correlatives
[edit]| type | anaphoric | identity | interrogative | indefinite | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| relative | irrelative | free choice | universal | |||||
| Basic | size | tantus | tantusdem | quantus | quantuscumque quantusquantus |
aliquantus | quantusvīs quantuslibet |
quantusque |
| extent | tantum | tantundem | quantum | quantumcumque | aliquantum | quantumvīs quantumlibet |
quantumque | |
| intensity | tantō | tantōdem | quantō | quantōcumque | aliquantō | quantōvīs quantōlibet |
quantōque | |
| cost | tantī | tantīdem | quantī | quantīcumque | aliquantī | quantīvīs quantīlibet |
quantīque | |
| Smallness | size | tantulus | quantulus °quantillus |
quantuluscumque | aliquantulus | quantulusvīs °quantuluslibet |
°quantulusque quantulusquisque | |
| extent | tantulum | quantulum °quantillum |
quantulumcumque | aliquantulum | quantulumvīs °quantulumlibet |
°quantulumque | ||
| intensity | tantulō | quantulō °quantillō |
quantulōcumque | aliquantulō | quantulōvīs quantulōlibet |
quantulōque | ||
| Greatness | size | tammagnus | quammagnus | quammagnuscumque | aliquammagnus | °quammagnuslibet | ||
| intensity | tantopere | quantopere | °aliquantopere | |||||
| ° Rare | ||||||||
Quality correlatives
[edit]| type | anaphoric | interrogative | indefinite | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | irrelative / emphatic | relative | irrelative | free choice | universal | ||||
| quality | tālis | ecquālis | quālisnam | quālis | quāliscumque quālisquālis |
aliquālis | quālislibet | quālisque | |
| comparative | quality | tāliter | quāliter | quālitercumque °quāliterquāliter |
aliquāliter | °quāliterlibet | °quāliterque | ||
| quantity | tālia | quālia | quāliacumque °quāliaquālia |
aliquālia | quālialibet | quāliaque | |||
| extent | tālem | quālem | quālemcumque °quālemquālem |
aliquālem | quālemlibet | quālemque | |||
| ° Rare | |||||||||
Duration correlatives
[edit]| type | anaphoric | interrogative | indefinite | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| relative | irrelative | free choice | universal | |||||
| eventual | tamdiū | quamdiū | °quamdiūcumque | aliquamdiū | °quamdiūlibet | quamque diū | ||
| cyclic | tantīsper | quantīsper | aliquantīsper | |||||
| ° Rare | ||||||||
Other interrogative terms
[edit]Additional interrogative terms include the following:
- quotēnus (“how many (each)?”), an interrogative distributive numeral from quot + -ēnus
- cuiās (“of what country?, from what place?, of what people?”), from cuius (“whose?”) + -ās (“of/from”)
- quantūrus (“how distant, how future”), an interrogative furure active participle from quaneō, of unknown use and meaning, used as an adjective.
Other correlative terms
[edit]
| type | collective | (medial) demonstrative |
proximal demonstrative |
distal demonstrative |
other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| basic | omnis | is, iste, istic | hic | ille, illic | alter, alius |
| dual | ambō | alteruter | |||
| number | tōtus | tot | |||
| time | semper | tum, tunc | num, nunc | ōlim | aliās |
Based on the Romance languages, it appears that in late spoken Latin (or so-called "Vulgar Latin"), the expression hāc hōrā eventually attained the status of an idiomatic phrase for "now, at this moment", and likewise illā hōrā was used with the sense "then" (as in French lors); however, written Latin texts do not attest to the univerbation of such expressions with hōra (“hour; time; moment”).[1]
References
[edit]- Gildersleeve, B. L.; Lodge, Gonzalez (1887), Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, pages 62-63
- Roby, Henry John (1876), A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius: Part 1, 3rd edition, pages 458-460
- Kennedy, Benjamin Hall (1890), The Public School Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Students, 7th edition, page 255