quoniam

English

Noun

quoniam (plural quoniams)

1. (slang, obsolete) A kind of drinking-cup.

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Latin

Etymology

From quom +‎ iam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷo.ni.am/, [ˈkʷɔniä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwo.ni.am/, [ˈkwɔːniäm]

Conjunction

quoniam (+ ind)

1. since, for (as conjunction) + a reason
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:18

     quoniam fīliī sānctōrum sumus et vītam illam expectāmus quam Deus datūrus est hīs quī fidem suam numquam mūtant ab eō (For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.)

2. now that

Descendants

• Catalan: quòniam

References

• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quoniam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quoniam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quoniam (“since”), probably as an educated respelling/euphemism of Old French conin (“coney, rabbit”). Compare queynte and cunt.

Noun

quoniam

1. The vulva.