numquid

Latin

Alternative forms

• nunquid
• numquit (Late Latin, prescriptive)
• nimquit (Late Latin, proscribed)

Etymology

Univerbation of num (“whether, if”) +‎ quid (“something”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊŋ.kʷɪd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnum.kʷid]

Adverb

numquid (not comparable)

1. is it possible?
2. surely not?
   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 5.1.3:

     Numquidnam tibi molestumst, gnāte mī, si haec nunc mēcum accubat?

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   • 52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus 2.4.15:

     Numquid duās habētis patriās, an est ūna illa patria communis?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 1) 4.52:

     [...] numquid Pompōnius istīs
     audīret leviōra, pater sī vīveret? [...]

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Further reading

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