quantus

From Proto-Italic *kʷijentos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₂onts (“how much, how many”), from *kʷíh₂, neuter plural of *kʷís. Cognate with Ashkun ćīt, Waigali kiti, Sanskrit कियत् (kiyat), Avestan 𐬗𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬧𐬙 (cuuaṇt).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷan.tus/, [ˈkʷän̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.tus/, [ˈkwän̪t̪us]

quantus (feminine quanta, neuter quantum); first/second-declension adjective

1. how much, how many
2. how big
3. as much as, as

• Being an adjective in its most basic function, quantus was then used substantively as quantum (with genitive) to mean "as much of...as"; as quantī (pretiī) to mean "how high (a price)", "as high (a price) as", "how dear", "as dear as"; adverbially as quantum to mean "as much as" (cf. quam); as quantō to mean "by how much", "by as much as". For all these tantus has its coordinate functions.

First/second-declension adjective.

• tantus

• quantitās
• quantopere
• quantulus
• quantusvīs

• “quantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quantus 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)
• quantus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
    
  • (ambiguous) as far as I know: quantum scio
    
  • (ambiguous) I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
    
  • (ambiguous) to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
    
• “quantity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.