ubinam

ubinam

Latin

Etymology

From the adverb ubī (“where”) and -nam (“added to adverbs for the sake of emphasis”).

Adverb

ubinam (not comparable)

1. where in the world

   In quā non video, ubinam mens constans possit insistere.

Usage notes

• The adverbs ubī (“where”), ubinam (“where in the world?”), ubicumque (“wherever”) and ubiubī are sometimes used with the genitive of terra (“land”) (genitive plural: terrarum), locus (“place”) (nominative plural: locī, genitive plural: locorum), gens (“nation”) (genitive plural: gentium), to denote the same meaning as "where on earth". "in what country" or "where in the world":

  Ubinam est is homo gentium?

  Where in the world is this man?

  • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

    O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.

    O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?

References

• ubinam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ubinam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ubinam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette