adverb
quoque
quoque (not comparable)
Classical[ˈkʷɔ.kʷɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈkʷɔː.kʷe]
№ 76 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablepostpositionalalso, likewise, besides, too
A et B litterae sunt. C quoque littera est.
A and B are letters. C is also a letter. - not comparablepostpositionalnot only
- not comparablepostpositionaleven, actually
- figurativelynot comparablepostpositionalwhat's more
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
also
quoque — in Seneca, ch. XIX
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- quinto quoque anno
- every fifth year.
- primo quoque tempore
- at the first opportunity.
quŏque,
I. conj., also, too (subjoined to the emphatic word in a clause) [etym. dub.; perh. for quomque; v. Rib. Lat. Part. p. 23 sq.]:
quă de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: me scilicet maxime, sed proxime illum quoque fefellissem, Cic. Rab. Post. 12, 33: patriae quis exsul Se quoque fugit? Hor. C. 2, 16, 20: me quoque, id. ib. 1, 16, 22: te quoque, id. S. 2, 3, 312: non sophistae solum, sed philosophi quoque, Gell. 17, 12, 1: quoque enim, Liv. 2, 18, 4; 3, 50, 7; 23, 12, 15; 27, 22, 9; 30, 1, 3 al.; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fam. 2, 33, 108, p. 328: quoque igitur, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 32.—Pleon. with etiam, et: quin mihi quoque etiam est ad portum negotium, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 56; id. Pers. 4, 9, 7; Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 8: est etiam quoque, uti, Lucr. 5, 517: sunt vero et fortunae eorum (leonum) quoque clementiae exempla, Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 56.— II. = quidem: sese ne id quoque facturum esse, not even, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 18.
quōque = et quo.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quoque
conj, also, too (after an emphatic word, cf. -que, etiam, atque): quā de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, Cs.: me scilicet maxime, sed proxime illum quoque fefellissem: patriae quis exsul Se quoque fugit? H.: quoque enim, L.: quoque igitur: Ego quoque etiam timida sum, T.: quando ne ea quoque vis proficeret, L.
quō-que
(i. e. et quo), see -que.
Origins
From a declined form of quis and -que (“each”). Ultimately the same as etymology 1. Compare with quōquam. Other Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek πότε (póte) and ποτέ (poté).