quivis
Latin
Etymology
From quī + vīs.
Pronoun
quīvis (feminine quaevīs, neuter quidvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion
- whoever you will, anyone, anything
- whatever (you will), whatsoever
Declension
Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quīvis | quaevīs | quidvīs | quīvīs1 | quaevīs | ||
| Genitive | cuiusvīs1 | quōrunvīs quōrumvīs | quārunvīs quārumvīs | quōrunvīs quōrumvīs | |||
| Dative | cuivīs1 | quibusvīs quīsvīs1 | |||||
| Accusative | quenvīs quemvīs | quanvīs quamvīs | quidvīs | quōsvīs | quāsvīs | quaevīs | |
| Ablative | quōvīs | quāvīs | quōvīs | quibusvīs quīsvīs1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, quī was often spelled as quei, cuius as quoius, cui as quoi (or quoiei), and quīs as queis.
Determiner
quīvis (feminine quaevīs, neuter quodvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion
- whichever, whatever (person or thing)
Usage notes
- The pronoun is used in place of a noun, while the determiner is used in place of an adjective (e.g. whichever man, whatever speech). The declensions differ only in the neuter nominative/accusative singular: quidvīs as a pronoun, quodvīs as a determiner.
Declension
Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quīvis | quaevīs | quodvīs | quīvīs1 | quaevīs | ||
| Genitive | cuiusvīs1 | quōrunvīs quōrumvīs | quārunvīs quārumvīs | quōrunvīs quōrumvīs | |||
| Dative | cuivīs1 | quibusvīs quīsvīs1 | |||||
| Accusative | quenvīs quemvīs | quanvīs quamvīs | quodvīs | quōsvīs | quāsvīs | quaevīs | |
| Ablative | quōvīs | quāvīs | quōvīs | quibusvīs quīsvīs1 | |||
1In Republican Latin or earlier, quī was often spelled as quei, cuius as quoius, cui as quoi (or quoiei), and quīs as queis.
See also
- quamvīs
- quantumvīs
- quantusvīs
- ubivīs
- utervīs
References
- “quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quivis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque
- all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque
Portuguese
Noun
quivis
- plural of quivi