qualiscumque
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷaː.lisˈkum.kʷe/, [kʷäːlʲɪs̠ˈkʊŋkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwa.lisˈkum.kwe/, [kwälisˈkumkwe]
Determiner[edit]
quāliscumque (neuter quālecumque); third-declension two-termination determiner with an indeclinable portion.
- of what quality soever, of whatever kind, whatsoever sort
- Hospitalis tibi illa qualiscumque sedes erit.
- Any sort of place there will be hospitable to you. (Seneca, Epistulae Morales, III,28)
- . any, each without distinction (transferred, Late Latin)
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective with an indeclinable portion.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque | |
| Genitive | quāliscumque | quāliumcumque | |||
| Dative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
| Accusative | quālemcumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque quālīscumque |
quāliacumque | |
| Ablative | quālīcumque | quālibuscumque | |||
| Vocative | quāliscumque | quālecumque | quālēscumque | quāliacumque | |
Descendants[edit]
- → Old French: quelesquunques
- French: quelconque
References[edit]
- “qualiscumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press