quotusquisqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kʷɔ.tʊsˈkʷɪs.kʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kʷo.t̪usˈkʷis.kʷe]

形容詞

quotusquisquis (neuter quotusquisque); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. how few, how little a number
   • 54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Plancio XXV.62:

     Quotus enim quisque disertus, quotus quisque iuris peritus est, ut eos numeres qui volunt esse?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, Apologeticus XLII:

     Certe, inquitis, templorum vectigalia quotidie decoquunt, stipes quotusquisque jam jactat?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective with a relative/interrogative determiner with an indeclinable portion.

In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi or quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).
Neuter forms are not attested classically.

Further reading

• “quotusquisque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quotusquisque”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.