cui

cui

1. (transitive) To take.
2. (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:

     Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• (sex) teca, yecoa, tetech ahci, cuicui

• cuicui
• cuiloni

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 71
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216

From Latin cui.[1] Compare Sicilian cui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuj/
• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: cùi

cui (relative)

1. prepositional of che: whom; which
2. (formal) dative of che: to whom; to which

• (prepositional): il quale
• (dative): a cui; al quale

• per cui

cui (invariable) (relative)

1. (with definite article) whose

   la donna il cui nome ho scordato ― the woman whose name I’ve forgotten

   la donna le cui amiche sono incinte ― the woman whose friends are pregnant

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kui̯/, [kʊi̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuj/, [kuj]

cui

1. to whom? (interrogative); dative singular of quis

cui

1. to whom, to which (relative); dative singular of quī

cui

1. to what?, to which? (interrogative); dative singular of quī

• cui bonō – who benefits
• cui malō – who suffers

• Italian: cui
• Old French: cui
• Romanian: cui

• cui bono on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
    
  • the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
    
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
    

• cuu (Milanese classical orthography)
• cüü (Ticinese orthography)
• cüi (Eastern modern orthographies)

• (Western Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [kyː(i̯)]
• (Eastern Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [ky(ː)i̯]

cui

1. plural of cul (“arse, bum”)

cui

1. Nonstandard spelling of cuī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cuǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cuì.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

cui

1. Alternative form of qui

cui

1. who; whom
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo rossinhols s'esbaudeya:

     Mas no sai de que ni de cui,

     But I don't know of what or of whom,

• que

• IPA^(key): /kuj/

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Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).

cui n (plural cuie)

1. nail (metal fastener), pin
2. (slang) marijuana cigarette

• cuier
• cuia
• cuișor

• încuia
• descuia

Inherited from Latin cui.

cui (genitive/dative form of cine)

1. whose
2. to whom

• cu (Misspelled)

From Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.

• IPA^(key): /ku.i/
• IPA^(key): /ku/ (Apocopic form)
• Rhymes: -cui
• Hyphenation: cù‧i

cui

1. who, whom

The apocopic form cu' is prevalent in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.

• cu'
• cuegghiè
• cuegghiadè
• cuegghiarè

cui m (plural cuis)

1. Alternative spelling of cuy

• “cui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014