LatinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

Perhaps from *quomquam, from quom (later cum) and quam (any). Compare cumque.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

umquam (not comparable)

  1. at any time, ever

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

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)