LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
pronouninterrogative pronoun

ecquis1

ecquis or ecquī (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquid)
Classical[ˈɛk.kʷɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛk.kʷis]

Meaning

  1. interrogativepronounIs there anyone who...?, Is there anybody who...?
    Ecquis me vivit fortunatior?Is there another man as fortunate as I am?
    Heus ecquis in villa est?Is there anybody in the farm?
  2. interrogativepronounwhether anyone/anybody
    Percontabor ecquis adolescentem nouerit.I will ask whether any man did know the young fellow.

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Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativeecquis
ecquī		ecqua
ecquae		ecquid
genitiveeccuiuseccuiuseccuius
dativeeccuieccuieccui
accusativeecquemecquamecquod
ablativeecquō
ecquī		ecquā
ecquī		ecquō
ecquī
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativeecquīecquaeecqua
ecquae
genitiveecquōrumecquārumecquōrum
dativeecquibusecquibusecquibus
accusativeecquōsecquāsecqua
ecquae
ablativeecquibusecquibusecquibus

ecquis, ecquid (abl. ecqui,
I. v. infra, II. B.), pron. interrog. subst., Is there any one who? Any, any one, any body, any thing? in impassioned interrogation, i. q. num quis, quid (class.).
I. Prop.: aperite hoc: heus, ecquis hic est? ecquis hoc aperit ostium? Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 12; so, ecquis, id. Bacch. 4, 1, 9 sq.; id. Most. 4, 2, 19 sq.; id. Capt. 2, 3, 99 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 16 sq.; Liv. 3, 68; Verg. A. 9, 51; Hor. S. 2, 7, 34 al.: ecquid, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 58; id. Curc. 1, 2, 39; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 34; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 62; id. Att. 12, 7; id. Fam. 7, 11; Liv. 40, 40 al.: eccui, Cic. Mur. 33: ecquem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 42; Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8, 15 et saep.— With suffix nam, Cic. Vatin. 16; id. Fin. 4, 24; id. Top. 21; Auct. Her. 2, 17: quid huc tantum hominum incedunt? ecquidnam afferunt? Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5.—
B. Adj. for ecqui: ecquis alius Sosia intu'st, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 226; id. Most. 2, 1, 7; id. Men. 4, 2, 110; Liv. 23, 12 fin.; Verg. E. 10, 28; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 15 al.—
II. Hence, derivv. the adverbs,
A. ecquid, i. q. numquid, num, whether, perchance, in direct and indirect interrogation: ecquid audis? Do you hear? Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 29; id. Aul. 2, 3, 3; id. Curc. 2, 8, 19; id. Bacch. 1, 2, 53 al.; Ter. And. 5, 2, 30; id. Eun. 2, 2, 48; Cic. Clu. 26, 71; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122; id. Rep. 3, 11; id. Tusc. 1, 8; id. Att. 2, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 11 fin.; 4, 3; 5, 52; Verg. A. 3, 342; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 82 et saep.; cf. with tandem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: Tr. Ecquid placent (aedes)? Th. Ecquid placeant me rogas? Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 4; id. Bacch. 4, 10, 10; id. Mil. 3, 1, 114; 4, 2, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 16, 3; Liv. 27, 10; 44, 27.—Rarely (like quid) for cur, Liv. 42, 26.—*
B. ecqui, i. q. num aliqui, whether? in indirect interrog.: coepi observare, ecqui majorem filius mi honorem haberet, etc., whether, etc., Plaut. Aul. prol. 16 (but the true reading, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 15, and Plin. Ep. 6, 4, 2, is ecquid, v. Draeger, Hist Synt. I. p. 318).—
C. ec-quo, i. q. num aliquo, anywhere? ecquo te tua virtus provexisset? ecquo industria? Cic. Phil. 13, 11, 24, cf. on these adverbs Hand, Turs. II. pp. 351-355.

Origins

From ec- + quis.

determinerinterrogative pronoun
ecquis2
ecquis or ecquī (feminine ecqua or ecquae, neuter ecquod)
Classical[ˈɛk.kʷɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛk.kʷis]

Meaning

  1. interrogativepronoun(is there) any?
    Investigent ecqua virgo sit, an mulier.Let them look whether there is any maiden or woman.
    Plautus, Mostellaria, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. III of five volumes, 1924, p. 324f.: ecquis homo est, qui facere argenti cupiat aliquantum lucri, qui hodie sese excruciari meam vicem possit pati ? Anyone anxious to make a bit of easy money by taking my place at an execution ?

Origins

From ec- + quis.

Quick answers

What does ecquis mean in Latin?
ecquis, a pronoun, means “Is there anyone who...?, Is there anybody who...?; whether anyone/anybody”.
How do you pronounce ecquis?
In classical Latin, [ˈɛk.kʷɪs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈɛk.kʷis].