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“every” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

every
quisque, quaeque, quidque, and (used adjectively) quodque (everyone that belongs to a certain number or whole; one as well as the other; hence “all,” but considered individually): quivis: quilibet, with the two neuter forms quid- and quod-vis; quid- and quod-libet; the quid- forms used substantively; the masculine and feminine, have but one form (every one = “any one you please;” but quivis is subjective, referring the choice to the person addressed; quilibet, objective, referring it to chance: any one that turns up, no matter which): omnes, plur. (all; including, therefore, every individual composing the whole, but not considering them individually, but inclusively): omnis (in sing., is also used for “every,” with a sing. substantive; it denotes that the substantive is to be taken as a whole, as the name of a class, so that what is said of it holds good of all the class; e.g., omnis de officio quaestio duplex est; this is true of every kind of discussion about points of morality; so omni officio satisfacere alicui, i. e., by services of every kind). Every single (one), unus quisque; unus quivis; unus quilibet, or quilibet unus (this addition of the unus strengthens the individualizing power of the pronouns; the distinctions, of course, remain the same). Let every man retain whatever he possesses, quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat. In the days of our ancestors the experienced were employed for this service, but now everybody, no matter who, apud majores adhibebatur peritus, nunc quilibet. Everybody loves himself, se quisque diligit. Pompey feared everything, that you might not fear anything, timebat Pompeius omnia, ne aliquid vos timeretis. Every man of them (e.g., was killed), ad unum omnes, omnes ad unum. ☞ Sometimes “every” is translated by nullus non, nemo non, as a more emphatic exclusion of all exceptions, and sometimes by quicumque (“any one whichsoever it be,” Agesilaus non destitit, quibuscumque rebus posset, patriam juvare). Before everything, omnium primum; ante omnia. ☞ When “every” refers to any numerical distribution, the distributive numerals are to be used; e.g., binae venationes per dies quinque; i. e., two every day for five days; so for every day, month, year, singulis diebus, mensibus, annis, etc. (but also quot diebus, mensibus, annis, etc.). Every hour, in singulas horas, or in horas only. For EVERY DAY, Vid: below.
Every tenth man, decimus quisque: every five years, quinto quoque anno (☞ with the sing. and an ordinal number).
Every day, quotidie: quot diebus: nullo non die (more emphatically including all, by denying that there is any exception): singulis diebus (on each day as it comes): in (singulos) dies (from day to day, from one day to another, implying that there is a progressive increase or decrease of the things spoken about).
Everything = “all in all,” omnia (e.g., filius ei omnia est, is everything to him). EVERYBODY, quisque: unusquisque: quilibet: quivis (SYN. in EVERY): omnes, cuncti (all, all together); also by an interrogation with quis est, qui etc. (e.g., would not every one believe? quis est qui non arbitretur?) Also, by nemo non. ☞ Nemo has not neminis or nemine, but nullius, nullo, are used: he is loved by everybody, a nullo non diligitur. Everybody who, quicumque (whosoever).

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What is the Latin word for every?
The usual Latin words for “every” are quisque, quīvīs, quīlibet; also omnis, ūnusquisque, cūnctus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.