Reduplication ofquam. The original meaning was hypothetically “how(much)ever”; comparequisquis(“whoever”).

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

quamquam

1. though,although,albeit
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.393–394:

     At pius Aenēās,quamquam lēnīre dolentem
     sōlandō cupit et dictīs āvertere cūrās, [...].

     But dutiful Aeneas,although he desires to relieve [Dido’s] grief by comforting her, and say more to turn aside her anguish, [...].

   • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita7.13:

     […] ;quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]

     […] ;though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and […]

1. etsi,tamen

• → Esperanto:kvankam(learned)

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

quamquam

1. accusativefemininesingular ofquisquis

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