quoniam
English
Noun
quoniam (plural quoniams)
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷo.ni.am/, [ˈkʷɔniä̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwo.ni.am/, [ˈkwɔːniäm]
Conjunction
quoniam (+ ind)
- since, for (as conjunction) + a reason
- 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.
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
- The vulva.
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