adverb
alicunde
alicunde (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablesomewhence, from somewhere, from any place
ălĭcunde, adv., of place [aliquis-unde],
I. from somewhere = ab aliquo loco, Gr. ἀμόθεν.
I. Lit.:
tu mihi aliquid aliquo modo alicunde ab aliquibus blatis, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 13; cf. verse 10: venit meditatus alicunde ex solo loco, Ter And. 2, 4, 3: aliunde fluens alicunde extrinsecus aër, streaming from some part from another source, * Lucr. 5, 522: praecipitare alicunde, Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31; so id. Caecin. 16, 46. —II. Transf.
A. Of persons:
alicunde exora mutuum, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 44: non quaesivit procul alicunde. Cic. Verr. 2, 20, 48.—Hence, alicunde corradere, to scrape together from some source, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 34, and alicunde sumere, to get from somebody, i. e. to borrow from some one, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 70.—B. Of things:
nos omnes, quibus est alicunde aliquis objectuslabor, from any thing, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6. (In Cic. Att. 10, 1, 3, B. and K. read aliunde for alicunde.)Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
alicunde adv.
ali- + cunde (unde), from somewhere, from any place: venire, T.: decedere. —Meton.: non quaesivit procul alicunde, from any other source: alicunde sumere, from somebody, T.: alicunde obiectus labor, from anything, T.
Origins
From ali- + (c)unde.