determiner
aliquot
aliquot (indeclinable)
Classical[ˈa.lɪ.kʷɔt]Ecclesiastical[ˈaː.li.kʷot]
Meaning
- indeclinablesome; several; a few
Nūllum iam aliquot annīs facinus exstitit nisi per tē, nūllum flāgitium sine tē; […].
No crime for several years now has come to pass except through you, no outrage without you; […] .63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.18
ălĭquŏt,
I. indef. indecl. num. [alius-quot; cf. aliquis], some, several, a few, not many (undefined in number; while nonnulli indicates an indeterminate selection from several persons, Caes. B. G. 3, 2; cf. Wolf ad Suet. Caes. 10):
dies, Ter. And. 2, 1, 13; Vulg. Jud. 14, 8; ib. Act. 9, 19; 10, 48: liberae, Ter. And. 4, 4, 32: amici, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 82: saecula, Cic. Univ. 1: epistulae, id Fam. 7, 18: aliquot abacorum, Cic. Verr. 4, 57: aliquot de causis, Caes. B. G. 3, 2 al.— Without subst.: aliquot me adierunt, Ter. And. 3, 3, 2: ex quā aliquot praetorio imperio redierunt, Cic. Pis. 38: ille non aliquot occiderit, multos ferro, etc., id. Sex. Rosc. 100.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
aliquot
indef. num. indecl. , some, several, a few, not many, a number: dies, T.: aliquot abacorum: aliquot de causis, Cs.: aliquot me adierunt, T.: aliquot occidere, multos ferro, etc.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷó- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *kʷótider. Proto-Italic *kʷot Latin quot Latin aliquot From ali- + quot.
Descendants
- Englishaliquot
- Germanaliquot
- Frenchaliquote
- Portuguesealíquota
- Spanishalícuota
- Interlinguaaliquot
In English words that came into English from aliquot
- aliquotaliquot