ec- +quī
ecquīorecquis (feminineecquaorecquae,neuterecquod);indeclinable portion with arelative/interrogative determiner(interrogative pronoun)
- (determiner)any
c. 191BCE,
Plautus,
Pseudolus1.5:
- Ecquas viginti minas
paritas ut auferas a me?- And you are making ready to get eighty pounds out of me?
70BCE,
Cicero,
In Verrem2.4.18:
- Ecqui pudor est,ecquae religio, Verres,ecqui metus?
- Do you have any modesty,any scruples, Verres,any fear?
68BCE – 44BCE,
Cicero,
Epistulae ad Atticum10.3.1:
- Cum quod scriberem plane nihil haberem, haec autem reliqua essent quae scire cuperem, profectusne esset, quo in statu urbem reliquisset, in ipsa Italia quem cuique regioni aut negotio praefecisset,ecqui essent ad Pompeium et ad consules ex senatus consulto de pace legati, cum igitur haec scire ⟨cupere⟩m dedita opera has ad te litteras misi.
- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
57BCE,
Cicero,
De domo sua24.15:
- si quae tum promulgasti constituisti promisisti vendidisti perferre potuisses,ecqui locus orbi terrarum vacuus extraordinariis fascibus atque imperio Clodiano fuisset?
- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
56BCE,
Cicero,
Pro Sestio110.17:
- Ecquae seditio umquam fuit in qua non ille princeps?Ecqui seditiosus cui ille non familiaris?Ecquae turbulenta contio cuius ille non concitator?
- 1958 translation by R. Gardner
- Was there everany riot in which he was not the leader?any rioter with whom he was not intimate?any disorderly meeting where he was not the ringleader?
- (pronoun)anyone,anything
c. 200BCE,
Plautus,
Stichus222:
[1]- Qui cena poscit?Ecqui poscit prandio?
- 1952 translation by Paul Nixon
- Who offers a dinner? (silence)Anyone offer a lunch? (more silence)
27BCE – 25BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita26.33.7:
- "In consilio" inquit "arbitror me fuisse consulibus, Capua capta cum quaerereturecqui Campanorum bene meritus de re publica nostra esset.
- 1943 translation by Frank Gardner Moore
- "I testify," he said, "that I was one of the advisers to the consuls when, after the capture of Capua, the question was raised whetherthere was anyone of the Campanians who had deserved well of our republic.
- Becomes infrequent after Cicero's era.[2]
- The nominative singularecquī is usually a determiner (used adjectivally), but can also be found used as a pronoun/substantive in Plautus[2] and in Livy. However, the nominative singular of the pronoun is more oftenecquis.
- ecquī is attested in the plural.
Indeclinable portion with arelative/interrogative determiner.
1In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms ofquī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or pluralquī (old spellingquei), the genitive singularcuius (old spellingquoius), the dative singularcui (old spellingquoi orquoiei), the dative/ablative pluralquīs (old spellingqueis).
- The declension is similar toaliquī. In particular, the feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural forms are normallyecqua, butecquae is also found. The feminine nominative plural can only beecquae.
- The following forms are unattested in Classical Latin, although they may possibly be found in more recent texts: genitive singulareccuius, masculine/neuter genitive pluralecquōrum, feminine genitive pluralecquārum, dative/ablative pluralecquibus.
- ^Nixon, Paul (1952),Plautus with an English translation, volume 5, page28f
- ↑2.02.1Bodelot, Colette (2023), “Ecquis in 'Early Latin':Aspects of Questions”, in J. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini, Charlie Kerrigan, editors,Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception, Cambridge University Press, pages138-156
- “ecquis, ecqui, ecquae, ecqua, ecquid, ecquod” in volume 5, part 2, column 51, line 77 in theThesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- “ecqui”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ecqui”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ecqui in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “ecqui”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page570.
