adverb
quōvīs
quōvīs (not comparable)
Classical[ˈkʷoː.wiːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkʷɔː.vis]
Meaning
- not comparableto anywhere whatsoever, anywhither, whithersoever
quō-vīs, adv. quivis,
I. to any place whatever (poet.): cibo perduci poteris quovis. Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 7:
quovis admittunt aves, id. As. 2, 1, 11.—With gentium: immo abeat quovis gentium, let him go anywhere in the world, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 55.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quō-vīs adv.
quivis, to any place whatever, whither you will : abeat quovis gentium, anywhere in the world , T.
Origins
Either from quīvīs or formed from quō (“whither”, adverb) + vīs (“thou wantest or wishest”, verb).