umquam
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- unquam (later)
EtymologyEdit
Perhaps from *quomquam, from quom (later cum) and quam (“any”). Compare cumque.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
umquam (not comparable)
Usage notesEdit
Most frequently in negative clauses, sometimes also in interrogations and in conditional clauses; but very seldom in affirmations
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DescendantsEdit
Several forms reflect the addition of an adverbial /-s/.
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: încă
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ŭmquam”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 26
Further readingEdit
- “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “umquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- umquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)