adverb
numquī
numquī (not comparable)
Classical[ˈnʊŋ.kʷiː]Ecclesiastical[ˈnum.kʷi]
Meaning
- not comparableany, in any way
numquī minus ea gratia tamen omnium opera utor?
c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 160numquī minus hasce esse oportet liberas?
Should they be any less free?c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 736
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
num-quī adv.
interrog, in any way? at all? T.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Italic *kʷoi Latin quei Latin quī univ. Latin numquī Univerbation of num- + quī (adverb). Compare numquis and numquid.