uterque
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From uter + -que. Compare Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌿𐌷 (ƕaþaruh), which may be inherited from the same source.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /uˈter.kʷe/, [ʊˈt̪ɛrkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /uˈter.kwe/, [uˈt̪ɛrkwe]
Pronoun edit
uterque (feminine utraque, neuter utrumque or utrunque); first/second-declension pronoun (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal; without or with m optionally → n in compounds)
- each of two or both.
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.4:
- Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.
- Thus each is feeble without the other.
- Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.
- perh. post 2nd c. CE but ancient, Hyginus astronomus, Poeticon Astronomicon 2.2:
- Nonnulli etiam Helicen et Cynosuram nymphas esse Iouis nutrices dicunt, et hac re etiam pro beneficio in mundo conlocatas, et utrasque Arctos appellatas esse, quas nostri Septentriones dixerunt.
- Some say the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are Jupiter's nursing nymphs, and for this reason they were placed on the world [sky] for our benefit, and were both named Arctos ("the Bears"), who we [the Romans] have also called the Septentriones ("the Northerners").
- Nonnulli etiam Helicen et Cynosuram nymphas esse Iouis nutrices dicunt, et hac re etiam pro beneficio in mundo conlocatas, et utrasque Arctos appellatas esse, quas nostri Septentriones dixerunt.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal; without or with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | uterque | utraque | utrumque utrunque |
utrīque | utraeque | utraque | |
Genitive | utrī̆usque | utrōrumque utrōrunque |
utrārumque utrārunque |
utrōrumque utrōrunque | |||
Dative | utrīque | utrīsque | |||||
Accusative | utrumque utrunque |
utramque utranque |
utrumque utrunque |
utrōsque | utrāsque | utraque | |
Ablative | utrōque | utrāque | utrōque | utrīsque | |||
Vocative | uterque | utraque | utrumque utrunque |
utrīque | utraeque | utraque |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “uterque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “uterque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- uterque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
- (ambiguous) in both cases; whichever way you look at it: in utraque re
- to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
- uterque in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016