• doquier

FromOld Spanishdo(“where”) +‎quiera(“it may want”) withdo being a contraction ofde(“of”) +‎o(“in where”), fromubi(“where?”).o has been displaced bydonde (fromLatindē(“from”) +unde(“whence”)) in Modern Spanish (hencedondequiera).

• IPA^(key): /doˈkjeɾa/[d̪oˈkje.ɾa]
• Rhymes:-eɾa
• Syllabification:do‧quie‧ra

doquiera(dated)

1. everywhere

   Synonym:dondequiera

   Doquiera vas, traes desastres.

   Everywhere you go, you bring disasters.

   • 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle,The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:

     Fabladdoquiera vos vayáis.

     Speakeverywhere ye go.

2. wherever(when used withque)

   Synonym:dondequiera que

   Doquiera que vos vayáis, yo estaré convusco.

   Wherever ye go, I shall be with you.

   • 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle,The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:

     Toda la maldat del mundo esdoquiera que tu seas.

     All the evil in the world iswherever you are.

• Doquiera andDoquier are rarely used and have been replaced bydondequiera anddondequiera que.
• Both terms are still used in the expressionpor doquier(“everywhere, all over the place”)

• “doquiera”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• Spanish compound terms
• Spanish terms derived from Latin
• Spanish 3-syllable words
• Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
• Rhymes:Spanish/eɾa
• Rhymes:Spanish/eɾa/3 syllables
• Spanish lemmas
• Spanish adverbs
• Spanish dated terms
• Spanish terms with usage examples
• Spanish terms with quotations

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 1 entry
• Quotation templates to be cleaned
• Spanish links with redundant wikilinks