• necquicquam
• nēquicquam
• nēquidquam

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [neːˈkʷiː.kʷãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [neˈkʷiː.kʷam]

nēquīquam (notcomparable)

1. In vain,vainly,needlessly,uselessly,fruitlessly,pointlessly; tonopurpose oreffect,withoutground orreason

   Synonyms:īnfēlīciter,frūstrā,supervacuō,incassum,in cassum

   • Gaius Valerius Catullus,Catullus 101:

     et mūtamnequīquam alloquerer cinerem.

     And (to) talkin vain to silent ash.

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.208–209:

     “[...] an tē, genitor, cum fulmina torquēs, /nēquīquam horrēmus [...].”

     “Or when you hurl thunderbolts, Father [Jupiter], [do we] tremblevainly?”

• “nequiquam”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nequiquam”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nequiquam”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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