adjectivethird-declension one-termination adjective
cuiās
cuiās (genitive cuiātis)
Classical[kʊjˈjaːs]Ecclesiastical[kuˈjas]
Meaning
- one terminationwhence?, of what country?, from what place?, of what people?, of which kin?
Socrates quidem cum rogaretur, cuiatem se esse diceret, 'mundanum' inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur.
Socrates, when asked where he would say he was from; said "from the world"; for he judged himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world.106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.108
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | cuiās | cuiās | cuiās |
| genitive | cuiātis | cuiātis | cuiātis |
| dative | cuiātī | cuiātī | cuiātī |
| accusative | cuiātem | cuiātem | cuiās |
| ablative | cuiātī cuiāte | cuiātī cuiāte | cuiātī cuiāte |
| vocative | cuiās | cuiās | cuiās |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | cuiātēs | cuiātēs | cuiātia |
| genitive | cuiātium | cuiātium | cuiātium |
| dative | cuiātibus | cuiātibus | cuiātibus |
| accusative | cuiātīs cuiātēs | cuiātīs cuiātēs | cuiātia |
| ablative | cuiātibus | cuiātibus | cuiātibus |
| vocative | cuiātēs | cuiātēs | cuiātia |
cūjas (archaic quōjas), ātis, or (anteand post-class.) uncontr. cūjātis, is,
I. pron. interrog. [pronom. stem quo-; cf.: quis, qui], whence originating? of what country, family, or town? whence? from what place? = ποδαπός; nom. cujatis (quoj-), Enn. ap. Cic. Balb. 22, 51; Att. ap. Non. p. 426, 24; Plaut. Curc. 3, 37; id. Men. 2, 2, 66; id. Poen. prol. 109; 5, 2, 33; App. M. 1, p. 104, 16; 8, p. 212, 31:
quem cum percunctaretur Scipio, quis et cujas et cur id aetatis in castris fuisset? etc., Liv. 27, 19, 9: Socrates cum rogaretur, cujatem se esse diceret, Mundanum inquit, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 37, 108: cujates estis? aut quo ex oppido? Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 34.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
cūiās ātis, pron interrog.
2 CA-, whence? of what country? from what place? quis et cuias, L.: cuiatem se esse diceret.
Origins
From cuius + -ās (gentilic suffix).