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ubicumque
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊ.bɪˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [u.biˈkum.kʷe]
- (poetic):
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊ.biːˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [u.biˈkum.kʷe]
Adverb
ubicumque or ubīcumque (not comparable)
- wherever, wheresoever, in whatever place; in any place
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.108:
- Patria est, ubicumque est bene.
- My country is wherever I am happy.
- Patria est, ubicumque est bene.
Usage notes
- Vowel length: scansion with /i:/ extremely rare, e.g. Catul. 39.6 and Ov. Met. 7. 736.
- The adverbs ubī (“where”), ubinam (“where in the world?”), ubicumque (“wherever”) and ubiubī are sometimes used with the genitive of terra (“land”) (singular: terrae, plural: terrārum), locus (“place”) (singular: locī, plural: locōrum), gens (singular: gentium), to denote the same meaning as "where on earth". "in what country" or "where in the world":
- Qui ubicumque terrarum sunt.
- Those which are wherever in the world.
- Ubicumque terrarum.
- Wherever in the world.
- Ubicumque terrārum et gentium.
- Wherever in the whole world.
- Ubicumque locorum vivitis.
- Wherever in the world you are alive.
- Ubicumque erit gentium.
- Wherever he will be in the world.
- Qui ubicumque terrarum sunt.
Related terms
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: oconque, ouconque
- Borrowings:
- → Interlingua: ubicunque
References
- “ubicumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ubicumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ubicumque”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pede Certo - Digital Latin Metre, 2011
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