quilibet
Latin
Alternative forms
- quīlubet
Etymology
From quī + -libet.
Pronoun
quīlibet m (feminine quaelibet, neuter (adj.) quodlibet, neuter (noun) quidlibet)
- anyone
Declension
Relative/interrogative pronoun with an indeclinable portion.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quīlibet1 quislibet | quaelibet | quodlibet | quīlibet1 | quaelibet | ||
| Genitive | cuiuslibet1 | quōrumlibet | quārumlibet | quōrumlibet | |||
| Dative | cuilibet1 | quibuslibet quīslibet1 | |||||
| Accusative | quemlibet | quamlibet | quodlibet | quōslibet | quāslibet | quaelibet | |
| Ablative | quōlibet | quālibet | quōlibet | quibuslibet quīslibet1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, quī was often spelled as quei, cuius as quoius, cui as quoi (or quoiei), and quīs as queis.
References
- “quilibet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quilibet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quilibet 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)
- quilibet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette