quiens

French

Etymology

Corruption of tiens.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

quiens

1. (Quebec, colloquial) tiens
   • 1970, Gabrielle Roy, chapter III, in Bonheur d'occasion‎, Beauchemin, page 40:

     —Ben quiens, fit-il, c'est encore pour sauver la démocratie.

     "Well," he said, "it's to save democracy again."

Anagrams

• enquis, équins, niques, niqués, quines, quinés, sequin, squine

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of queō (“can, be able to”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷi.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.ens]

Participle

quiēns (genitive queuntis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. (being) able to
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.5:

     Isto quoque fortunae naufragio, Psyche, perterrita nec indipisci iam maritum volatilem quiens, tota spe salutis deposita, sic ipsa suas cogitationes consuluit: ...

     With this "shipwreck" of bad luck, Psyche, terrified and hopeless as she was, not being able to contact her flying husband anymore, started holding these thoughts: ...

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	quiēns			queuntēs	queuntia
genitive	queuntis			queuntium
dative	queuntī			queuntibus
accusative	queuntem	quiēns		queuntēs queuntīs	queuntia
ablative	queunte queuntī1			queuntibus
vocative	quiēns			queuntēs	queuntia

¹When used purely as an adjective.