quinamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From quī +‎ -nam.

代名詞

quīnam

1. who, which, what (interrogative)

使用する際の注意点

• quīnam is used adjectivally, and also substantivally:
  • Plautus, Bacchides, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 352f.:

    sed foris concrepuit nostra: quinam exit foras?

    But there goes our door! Wonder who's coming out.

  • Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber X. In: Livy with an English translation by B. O. Foster vol. IV of thirtheen volumes containing books VIII–X, 1926, p. 480f.:

    Quinam sit ille, quem non pigeat longinquitatis bellorum scribendo legendoque, quae gerentes non fatigaverunt ?

    Who, pray, could grudge the time for writing or reading of these wars, when they could not exhaust the men who fought them ?

  • Ammianus Marcellinus, rerum gestarum libri, liber XV. In: Ammianus Marcellinus with an English translation by John C. Rolfe, vol. I of three volumes, 1935, p. 174f.:

    Tunc anus quaedam orba luminibus, cum percontando quinam esset ingressus, Iulianum Caesarem conperisset. exclamavit hunc deorum templa reparaturum.

    Then an old woman, who had lost her sight, on inquiring who had entered and learning that it was the Caesar Julian, cried out that he would repair the temples of the Gods.

語形変化

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).

関連する語

• quidnam
• quisnam
• quodnam

派生した語

• Catalan: quin
• Franco-Provençal: quint (through confusion with quantus)
• Occitan: quin

語源 2

数詞

quīnam

1. accusative feminine singular of quīnus

参照

• “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quinam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.