adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
quantus
quantus (feminine quanta, neuter quantum)
Classical[ˈkʷan.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkʷan.tus]
№ 311 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- adjectivehow much, how many
Quid enim refert quantum illī in arcā, quantum in horreīs iaceat, quantum pāscat aut feneret, sī aliēnō imminet, sī nōn acquīsīta sed acquīrenda computat?
For what does it matter how much [money] lies in his strongbox, how much [grain] in his granaries, how many [livestock] he pastures or puts out at interest, if he sets his sights on what belongs to others, if he reckons not what he has acquired but what there is to acquire?c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.6 - adjectivehow big or how great
[...] Teucrum comitantibus armīs / Pūnica sē quantīs attollet glōria rēbus!
“With the arms of Troy accompanying our own, Punic renown will arise through such great deeds!”29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.48-49 - adjectiveas much, great, or far as, etc., expressing a relative proportion or related quantity
[...] ipsa haeret scopulīs et, quantum vertice ad aurās / aetheriās, tantum rādīce in Tartara tendit.
[The wind and the oak tree:] the [tree] itself holds tight to bedrock and, as high as its peak [towers] to heavenly air, to that extent its roots stretch [down] to Tartarus.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.445–446
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quantus | quanta | quantum |
| genitive | quantī | quantae | quantī |
| dative | quantō | quantae | quantō |
| accusative | quantum | quantam | quantum |
| ablative | quantō | quantā | quantō |
| vocative | quante | quanta | quantum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quantī | quantae | quanta |
| genitive | quantōrum | quantārum | quantōrum |
| dative | quantīs | quantīs | quantīs |
| accusative | quantōs | quantās | quanta |
| ablative | quantīs | quantīs | quantīs |
| vocative | quantī | quantae | quanta |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- quantum scio
- as far as I know.
- non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
- I am not dissatisfied with my progress.
- quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- as far as I can guess.
- tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
- to take only enough food to support life.
quantus, a, um, adj. quam,
I. how great.
A. Bellum, Nep. Dat. 5, 1:
calamitates, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86: homo in dicendo, id. de Or. 2, 12, 51: gravitas, Vell. 2, 129, 2.—Corresp. with tantus: videre mihi videor tantam dimicationem, quanta numquam fuit, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2.—With sup.: tanta est inter eos, quanta maxima esse potest, morum studiorumque distantia, the greatest possible difference, Cic. Lael. 20, 74.—Without tantus: quantus non unquam antea, exercitus venit, Liv. 9, 37, 2: quanta maxime poterat vi perculit, id. 9, 10, 10; cf. id. 7, 9, 8; 42, 15, 1; 24, 35, 5; Verg. A. 12, 701; 3, 641: quanta mea sapientia est, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 62.—Quantus quantus, for quantuscumque, how great or much soever (ante-class.): denegabit quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 28: tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40: quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen, id. Phorm. 5, 7, 10. — In quantum, as far as, according as, in how far, in so far as, to whatever extent: in quantum satis erat, Tac. Or. 2: declamatio, in quantum maxime potest, imitetur eas actiones, Quint. 2, 10, 4; Sen. Ben. 2, 23, 1: pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque secuta est, Traxit, Ov. M. 11, 71: in quantum potuerit, as far as possible, Plin. Ep. 10, 75. — With a preceding in tantum, as greatly ... as: vir in tantum laudandus, in quantum intellegi virtus potest, Vell. 1, 9.— B. Of number, value, etc., how much, how many:
quanta milia, Prop. 1, 5, 10; Val. Fl. 3, 261. —And with or without tantus, as much as, as many as, Caes. B. G. 6, 19; Liv. 23, 21.— As a designation of multitude, quantum = emphatic omnis: ut te quidem omnes di deaeque, quantum est, perduint, as many as there are of them, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 6: quantum in terra degit, hominum perjurissime! Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 117.— quantum, subst., with gen., as much of ... as: quantum est frumenti hornotini, exaraverunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 45.— Quanti, as gen. pretii, how high, how dear, or as dear as, as high as: quanti emi potest minime, how cheap? Ep. Ad quadraginta minas, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 110: quanti emit? Ter. Eun. 5, 6(5), 14: quanti locaverint, tantam pecuniam redemptori solvendam, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 16: vide, quanti apud me sis, how highly I prize you, how dear you are to me, id. Fam. 7, 19 init.: noli spectare, quanti sit homo, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4: (tu) qui scias quanti Tulliam faciam, id. Fam. 2, 16, 5: quanti est ista hominum gloria, of how trifling worth, id. Rep. 6, 23, 25; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109: quanti est sapere! what a fine thing it is! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 21: quanti ejus intersit, Dig. 43, 18, 3.—Quanti quanti, at whatever price: sed quanti quanti, bene emitur quod necesse est, Cic. Att. 12, 23, 3.—Quanto opere, sometimes as one word, quantopere (q. v.), with what care, how greatly, how much (answering to tanto opere or tantopere, so greatly, so much): quanto se opere custodiant bestiae, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126: quantoque opere ejus municipii causā laborarem, id. Fam. 13, 7, 1.—Hence, A. quantum, adv., as much as, so much as:
scribe, quantum potes, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 7.—Quantum possum or potest, as soon as possible: domum me rursum, quantum potero, tantum recipiam, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 40: rescribas ad me, quantum potest, Cic. Att. 4, 13, 1: erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit, so far as I hear, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12: quantum suspicor, as far as I can conjecture, id. Eun. 1, 2, 62.—Quantum in or ad me, so far as concerns me: non igitur adhuc, quantum quidem in te est, intellego deos esse, i. e. for all you have shown to the contrary, Cic. N. D. 3, 7, 15; cf. id. Ac. 1, 2, 8: quantum ad Pirithoum, Phaedra pudica fuit, as far as concerned, with respect to, Ov. A. A. 1, 744: quantum ad jus attinet, Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 16; 3, 16, 1.—With compp. for quanto, the more, the greater, etc. (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 488, A, 2).—Followed by eo: quantum juniores patrum plebi se magis insinuabant, eo acrius contra tribuni tenebant, Liv. 3, 15, 2; 44, 7, 6; Col. 12, 23 init. —Followed by tanto: quantum augebatur militum numerus, tanto majore, etc., Liv. 5, 10, 5; 6, 38, 5; 27, 47, 11; cf. id. 32, 5, 1. — Also without a correl.: quantum ... et minus, Liv. 44, 36, 5.— B. quantō, adv., by how much, by as much as, according as, the:
quanto diutius Abest, magis cupio tanto, the longer he is away, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 15: quanto gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores, Caes. B. G. 5, 44: quanto magis philosophi delectabunt, si, etc., how greatly, Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10: quanto praeclarior vita, tanto, Sall. J. 85, 22 Kritz. — With verbs which contain the idea of comparison: Hannibalem tanto praestitisse ceteros imperatores prudentiā, quanto populus Romanus antecedebat fortitudine cunctas nationes, Nep. Hann. 1, 1.—With posit.: tanto acceptius in vulgum, quanto modicus privatis aedificationibus, inasmuch as, Tac. A. 6, 45: quanto frequenter impellitur, tanto firmiter roboratur, Lact. 5, 7, 9.—With ante, secus, aliud: quo minus exponam, quam multa ad me detulerit, quanto ante providerit, Cic. Sest. 3, 8: videtote, quanto secus ego fecerim, how differently, Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.: ut manifesto appareat, quanto sit aliud proximum esse, aliud secundum, Quint. 10, 1, 53.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quantus pronom adj.
2 CA-.
I. I. Relat., correl. with tantus, of what size, how much, as : tantum bellum, quantum numquam fuit: quantas pecunias acceperunt, tantas communicant, etc., Cs.: tanta est inter eos, quanta maxima esse potest, distantia, the greatest possible difference .—With ellips . of tantus, as great as, as much as : quantam quisque multitudinem pollicitus sit, Cs.: polliceri quantam vellent pecuniam: quanti argenti opus fuit, accepit, L.: qualis quantusque Polyphemus . . . Centum alii (sc. tales tantique), V.: Acta est nox, quanta fuit, i. e. the livelong night , O.: nequaquam cum quantis copiis, etc., with so small a force , L.: ut quantae maximae possent copiae traicerentur, L.—As subst n., as much as, all that, as : tantum pecuniae, quantum satis est: ego tantundem dabo, quantum ille poposcerit?: nihil praetermissi, quantum facere potui: te di deaeque omnes, quantumst, perduint, all there are of them , T.: quantum poposcerit, dato.—Esp., genit . of price, for how much, at the price that : quanti locaverint, tantam pecuniam solvendam: frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit, was worth the price he valued it at : plus lucri addere, quam quanti venierant. —
II. II. Interrog., As adj., how great? how much? of what amount? : quanta calamitas populo, si dixerit? etc.: id ipsum quantae divinationis est scire?: (virtutes) quantae atque quam multae sunt!: perspicite, quantum illud bellum factum putetis: quanto-illi odio esset, cogitabat: quae qualiacumque in me sunt (me enim ipsum paenitet, quanta sint), etc., i. e. that they are so small .—As subst n., how much : quantum terroris inicit!: quantum est, quod desit in istis Ad plenum facinus? i. e. how little , O.: quantum inportunitatis habent, their insolence is so great , S.: meminerant quantum accepisset: in quibus quantum tu ipse speres facile perspicio, i. e. how little .—Esp., genit . of price, at what price, of what value, how dear : Emit? quanti? T.: Quantist sapere! How fine it is! T.: statuite, quanti hoc putetis, what value you attach to : quanti auctoritas eius haberetur ignorabas? how highly was esteemed : vide, quanti apud me sis, how I prize you : quanti est ista hominum gloria, how worthless : legatorum verba, quanti fecerit, pericula mea declarant, how little he cared for , S.
quantus quantus pronom. adj.
, however great: Tu, quantus quantu's, nil nisi sapientia es, every inch of you, T.—As subst n., in genit. of price, at whatever price, at any cost: sed quanti quanti, bene emitur quod necesse est.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *kʷāntos, from either: * A thematization of Proto-Indo-European *kʷéh₂onts (“how much, how many”), from *kʷéh₂ (neuter plural of *kʷos) + *-onts (Caland adjectival suffix). * A -tos derivative of Proto-Italic *kʷām (whence quam), accusative of *kʷoi.
Descendants
- Catalanquant
- Frenchquant
- Italianquanto
- Occitanquant
- Portuguesequantofrom Old Galician-Portuguese quanto
- Romaniancât
- Sardiniancantu
- Spanishcuanto
- Spanishcuánto
- Aromaniancãt