quier
Spanish edit
Conjunction edit
quier ... quier
- (archaic) whether; be it; whether it be; should it be
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Únicamente ocuparon los ociosos ratos fervientes elogios de la acción heroica de D. Silvestre, comentándola quier por el lado humano, quier por el divino
- Idle moments were solely occupied by the fervent praise for the heroic action of Don Silvestre, commenting on it either from the human side, or from the divine side.
Verb edit
quier
Usage notes edit
- In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).
Further reading edit
- “quier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014