ubinam

Latin

Etymology

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

Adverb

ubinam (not comparable)

1. where in the world, where on Earth

   In quā non video, ubinam mens constans possit insistere.

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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^[1]:

    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.