Talk:inquam

inquiat

Could someone find a source for "inquiat"? I searched it on Perseus and could not find it attested. Quasinanopraeverbium (talk) 01:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

There are hits on Google Books, though most of them are mentions in dictionaries and grammars. Here's the first example in running text that I came across (it's at the end of the first line of the third paragraph). It may not be good classical Latin, but it's Latin, nonetheless. I don't have time to look further, but there might be some older examples in there somewhere. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:54, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Quasinanopraeverbium, Chuck Entz: It’s Classical. The entry for “inquam” on page 918 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) cites “pres. subj. inquiat Rhet.Her.4.5”, referring to the Rhetorica ad Herennium (post 86 BC), specifically Friedrich Marx’s Teubner edition of 1923, at book IV, § 5. I’ll add the quotation to Citations:inquam. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 14:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

thanks! Quasinanopraeverbium (talk) 16:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@Quasinanopraeverbium: You’re welcome. :-)  — I.S.M.E.T.A. 19:34, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

nca

@Scorpios90 where did you find the info about Sicilian nca being a derivative of this verb? The (admittedly old) dictionary I found [1] gives it as an apheretic shortening of dunca = Italian dunque, which has no connection to this verb. This, that and the other (talk) 10:20, 22 January 2022 (UTC)