adverb
nusquam
nusquam (not comparable)
Classical[ˈnʊs.kʷãː]Ecclesiastical[ˈnus.kʷam]
Meaning
- not comparablenowhere
Nusquam est quī ubīque est.
Nowhere is he who is everywhere. (The context describes someone who travels or reads indiscriminately.)c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.2 - not comparablenowhither
nusquam abeo
160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 246 - not comparableto no end, for nothing
- not comparableon no occasion, never
nusquam infecta re discederent
and never abandoned an enterprise which has been initiatedc. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.17
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
nūllō locōnusquam — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 19 and Metamorphoses I, ch. 8
nūllō in locōnusquam — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 11
nowhere
nusquam — in De Bello Gallico III and Seneca, ch. VIII
nusquam, adv. ne-usquam,
I. nowhere, in no place.
I. Lit.:
nusquam invenio Naucratem, Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6: fratrem nusquam invenio gentium, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 1; Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 73: sive est illa scripta uspiam, sive nusquam, Cic. Leg. 1, 15, 42; Liv. 1, 38; Verg. A. 4, 373: nolite arbitrari me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore, Cic. Sen. 22, 79 et saep.: nusquam non, everywhere, Plin. 24, 1, 1, § 1: nusquam alibi, nowhere else, Cic. Ac. prooem. 2, 32, 103; Liv. 39, 38, 1; 43, 9, 4: nusquam quidquam, nothing whatever, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 41.—II. Transf.
A. On no occasion, nowhere, in nothing:
nusquam equidem quicquam deliqui, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 30: praestabo sumptum nusquam melius poni posse, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2.—B. With verbs of motion, no whither, to no place, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 43; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 50:
nusquam abeo, id. Ad. 2, 2, 38; Auct. Her. 2, 2, 3.—2. To or for nothing:
ut ad id omnia referri oporteat, ipsum autem nusquam, Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 29: plebem nusquam alio natam, quam ad serviendum, Liv. 7, 18; so, nusquam alio, id. 4, 54, 7.—C. Nusquam esse, not to exist, not to be (mostly poet. and in postclass. prose), Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 62:
ergo nunc Dama sodalis Nusquam est, Hor. S. 2, 5, 101; Dig. 47, 2, 38; Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nusquam adv.
ne+usquam, nowhere, in no place : nusquam gentium, T.: hoc nusquam opinor scriptum fuisse: ubi nusquam ad dimicationem ventum est, L.: nusquam alibi, nowhere else. —On no occasion, nowhere, in nothing : praestabo sumptum nusquam melius poni posse.— No whither, to no place : nusquam abeo, T.—Fig., to nothing, for no purpose : ut ad id omnia referri oporteat, ipsum autem nusquam: plebs nusquam alio nata, quam, etc., for nothing else , L.
Origins
From ne (“not”) + usquam (“anywhere”).