LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

ubicumque

ubicumque or ubīcumque (not comparable)
Classical[ʊ.bɪˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]Ecclesiastical[u.biˈkum.kʷe]

Meaning

  1. not comparablewherever, wheresoever, in whatever place; in any place
    Patria est, ubicumque est bene.My country is wherever I am happy.106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.108

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

ŭbī^-cumque (-cunque, old Lat. -quomque:
I. in tmesi: istius hominis ubi fit quomque mentio, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 18), adv., wherever, wheresoever.
I. Relative: ubicumque est lepidum unguentum, ungor, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 10: etsi, ubicumque es, in eādem es navi, Cic. Fam. 2, 5, 1: ego uni Servor, ubīcumque est, Ov. M. 7, 735; cf.: sis licet felix, ubicumque mavis, Hor. C. 3, 27, 13: des operam, ut te ante Calendas Januarias, ubicumque erimus, sistas, Cic. Att. 3, 25: ubicumque eris, id. Fam. 5, 17, 4; Quint. 9, 4, 126: De. Si quid te volam, ubi eris? Li. Ubicumque libitum fuerit animo meo, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 97.—With terrarum, locorum, gentium: qui ubicumque terrarum sunt, ibi, etc., Cic. Phil. 2, 44, 113: ubicumque locorum Vivitis, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 34: ubicumque erit gentium, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 121.—Very rarely with subj.: nostrum est intellegere, utcumque atque ubicumque opus sit, obsequi, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 17: istuc est sapere, qui, ubicumque opus sit, animum possis flectere, id. Hec. 4, 3, 2.—
II. Indefinitely, wherever it may be, anywhere, everywhere (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): bonam deperdere famam, Rem patris oblimare, malum est ubicumque, Hor. S. 1, 2, 62: quicquid loquemur ubicumque, Quint. 10, 7, 28: in senatu et apud populum et apud principem et ubicumque, id. 7, 4, 18 Zumpt N. cr.

Origins

Derived from ubī̆ (“where”) + -cumque (indefinite suffix).

Gallo-Romance
  • Old Frenchoconque
  • Old Frenchouconque
Borrowings
  • Interlinguaubicunque

Quick answers

What does ubicumque mean in Latin?
ubicumque, a adverb, means “wherever, wheresoever, in whatever place; in any place”.
How do you pronounce ubicumque?
In classical Latin, [ʊ.bɪˈkʊŋ.kʷɛ]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [u.biˈkum.kʷe].