quidquid

Latin

Alternative forms

• quicquid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kʷidkʷid

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɪk.kʷɪd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷid.kʷid]

Pronoun

quidquid n

1. whatever
   1. quidquid id est, Whatever it is
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.49:

        Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

        Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even if they are bearing gifts.

2. whoever it be, everything, anything

Declension

Relative/interrogative pronoun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quidquid quicquid	quaequae
genitive	cuiuscuius	quōrumquōrum
dative	cuicui	quibusquibus quīsquīs
accusative	quidquid quicquid	quaequae
ablative	quōquō	quibusquibus quīsquīs
vocative	quidquid quicquid	quaequae

Related terms

• quisquis

References

• “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quidquid”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 510