quantus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kʷijentos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₂onts (“how much, how many”), from *kʷíh₂, neuter of *kʷís. Cognate with Ashkun ćīt, Waigali kiti, Sanskrit कियत् (kiyat), Avestan 𐬗𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬧𐬙 (cuuaṇt).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷan.tus/, [ˈkʷän̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwan.tus/, [ˈkwän̪t̪us]
Adjective
quantus (feminine quanta, neuter quantum); first/second-declension adjective
- how much, how many
- how big
Usage notes
- Being naturally adjective, quantus was then used substantively as quantum (with genitive) to mean "as much of...as"; as quantī (pretiī) to mean "how high (a price)", "as high (a price) as", "how dear", "as dear as"; adverbially as quantum to mean "as much as" (cf. quam); as quantō to mean "by how much", "by as much as". For all these tantus has its coordinate functions.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quantus | quanta | quantum | quantī | quantae | quanta | |
| Genitive | quantī | quantae | quantī | quantōrum | quantārum | quantōrum | |
| Dative | quantō | quantō | quantīs | ||||
| Accusative | quantum | quantam | quantum | quantōs | quantās | quanta | |
| Ablative | quantō | quantā | quantō | quantīs | |||
| Vocative | quante | quanta | quantum | quantī | quantae | quanta | |
Coordinate terms
- tantus
Derived terms
- quantitās
- quantopere
- quantulus
- quantusvīs
Related terms
Latin correlatives (edit)
| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| basic | quis, quī | quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus | is, iste, istic | hic | ille, illic | quī | quisquis, quīcumque | ipse, īdem | alter, alius |
| dual | uter | alteruter, uterque | uter | utercumque | |||||
| number | quot | aliquot | tot | quot | quotquot, quotcumque | totidem | |||
| order | quotus | totus | quotus | quotuscumque | |||||
| quantity | quam | aliquam | tam | quam | †quamquam | †tamen, †tandem | |||
| size | quantus | aliquantus | tantus | quantus | quantuscumque | tantusdem | |||
| quality | quālis | aliquālis | tālis | quālis | quālis, quāliscumque | ||||
| manner | ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum | utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō | ita, sic, eō/istō modō | hōc modō | illō modō | ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum | utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque | item, itidem | aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō |
| method, path, place | quā | aliquā, quāque | eā, istāc | hāc | illāc | quā | quāquā, quācumque | eādem | aliā |
| place | ubi | alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam | ibi, istic | hīc | illīc | ubi | ubiubi, ubicumque | ibidem | alibī, aliās |
| source | unde | alicunde, undeunde | inde, istinc | hinc | illinc | unde | undecumque | indidem | aliunde |
| destination | quō, quōrsum | aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum | eō, istūc, °istōrsum | hūc, °hōrsum | illūc, °illōrsum | quō | quōquō, quōcumque | eōdem | aliō, aliorsum |
| time | quandō | quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam | tum, tunc | num, nunc | ōlim | cum, quandō | cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque | simul | aliās |
| exact time | quota hōra | ea/ista hōra | hac hōra | illa hōra | quota hōra | quotacumque hōra | eadem hōra | altera/alia hōra | |
| repetition | quotiēns | aliquotiēns | totiēns | quotiēns | quotiēnscumque | ||||
| multiplication | quotuplex | totuplex | quotuplex | ||||||
| † Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare | |||||||||
Descendants
- Aromanian: cãt (through conflation with quotus)
- Asturian: cuántu
- Aragonese: quan
- Catalan: quant
- Dalmatian: cont
- Franco-Provençal: quint (through confusion with quinam)
- French: quant
- Galician: canto
- → Interlingua: quante
- Italian: quanto
- Lombard: quat
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫt (through conflation with quotus)
- Neapolitan: quanto
- Occitan: quant
- Portuguese: quanto
- Romanian: cât (through conflation with quotus)
- Romansch: quant, cont, quaunt
- Sardinian: cantu
- Sicilian: quantu
- Spanish: cuanto, cuánto
- Venetian: cuanto
References
- “quantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quantus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quantus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- (ambiguous) as far as I know: quantum scio
- (ambiguous) I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
- (ambiguous) to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
- (ambiguous) as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- quantity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911