quidquid
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷid.kʷid/, [ˈkʷɪkːʷɪd̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwid.kwid/, [ˈkwid̪kwid̪]
Pronoun
quidquid n
- whatever
- quidquid id est, Whatever it is
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.49:
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans even if they are bearing gifts.
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- quidquid id est, Whatever it is
- whoever it be, everything, anything
Declension
Relative/interrogative pronoun.
Related terms
References
- “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quidquid”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quidquid in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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