cui

cui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cui"

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

cui

1. (transitive) To take.
2. (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v.

     Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]

Synonyms

• (sex) teca, yecoa, tetech ahci, cuicui

Derived terms

• cuicui
• cuiloni

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 71
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cui.[1] Compare Sicilian cui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuj/
• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: cùi

Pronoun

cui (relative)

1. prepositional of che: whom; which
2. (formal) dative of che: to whom; to which

Synonyms

• (prepositional): il quale
• (dative): a cui; al quale

Derived terms

• per cui

Determiner

cui (invariable) (relative)

1. (with definite article) whose

   la donna il cui nome ho scordato ― the woman whose name I’ve forgotten

   la donna le cui amiche sono incinte ― the woman whose friends are pregnant

References

1. Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 139

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kui̯/, [kʊi̯]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuj/, [kuj]

• Audio (classical)

  (file)

Pronoun

cui

1. to whom? (interrogative); dative singular of quis

Pronoun

cui

1. to whom, to which (relative); dative singular of quī

Adjective

cui

1. to what?, to which? (interrogative); dative singular of quī

Related terms

• cui bono - who benefits
• cui malo - who suffers

Descendants

• Italian: cui
• Old French: cui
• Romanian: cui

See also

• cui bono on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
    
  • the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
    
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
    

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Lombard

Alternative forms

• cuu (Milanese classical orthography)
• cüü (Ticinese orthography)
• cüi (Eastern modern orthographies)

Pronunciation

• (Western Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [kyː(i̯)]
• (Eastern Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [ky(ː)i̯]

Noun

cui

1. plural of cul (“arse, bum”)

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Mandarin

Romanization

cui

1. Nonstandard spelling of cuī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cuǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cuì.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Old French

Pronoun

cui

1. Alternative form of qui

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Old Occitan

Pronoun

cui

1. who; whom
   • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo rossinhols s'esbaudeya:

     Mas no sai de que ni de cui,

     But I don't know of what or of whom,

See also

• que

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cui n (plural cuie)

1. nail (metal fastener), pin
2. (slang) marijuana cigarette

Declension

Declension of cui

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cui	cuiul	(niște) cuie	cuiele
genitive/dative	(unui) cui	cuiului	(unor) cuie	cuielor
vocative	cuiule		cuielor

Derived terms

• cuier
• cuia
• cuișor

Related terms

• încuia
• descuia

Etymology 2

From Latin cui.

Pronoun

cui (genitive/dative form of cine)

1. whose
2. to whom

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cu (Misspelled)

Etymology

From Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ɪ/
• IPA^(key): /kʊ/ (Apocopic form)
• Rhymes: -cui
• Hyphenation: cù‧i

Pronoun

cui

1. who, whom

Usage notes

The apocopic form cu' is prevalent in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.

Derived terms

• cu'
• cuegghiè
• cuegghiadè
• cuegghiarè

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Spanish

Noun

cui m (plural cuis)

1. Alternative spelling of cuy

Further reading

• “cui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014