§148. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns
The Substantive Interrogative Pronoun quis, who? quid, what? is declined in the Singular as follows:—
| M., F. | N. | |
| NOM. | quis | quid |
| GEN. | cûius | cûius |
| DAT. | cui | cui |
| ACC. | quem | quid |
| ABL. | quō | quō |
The Plural is the same as that of the Relative, quī, quae, quae.
a. The singular quis is either masculine or of indeterminate gender, but in old writers it is sometimes distinctly feminine.
b. The Adjective Interrogative Pronoun, quī, quae, quod, what kind of? what? which? is declined throughout like the Relative:—
| SUBSTANTIVE | ADJECTIVE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| quis vocat, who calls? | quī homō vocat, what man calls? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| quid vidēs, what do you see? | quod templum vidēs, what temple do you see? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
c. Quisnam, pray, who? is an emphatic interrogative. It has both substantive and adjective forms like quis, quī.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.