adverb
utrimque
utrimque (not comparable)
Classical[ʊˈtrɪŋ.kʷɛ]Ecclesiastical[uˈtrim.kʷe]
Meaning
- not comparableon or from both sides or ends
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ex utrāque parteutrimque — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 5, 15
on both sides
utrimque — in De Bello Gallico II
ū^trimquĕ (ū^trinquĕ), adv. uterque,
I. from or on both sides or parts, on the one side and on the other.
I. Lit.: horrescit telis exercitus asper utrimque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 385 Vahl.):
tollitur in caelum clamor exortus utrimque, id. ib. p. 500 (Ann. v. 422 ib.): clamor utrinque, undique concursus, Hor. S. 1, 9, 77: postquam utrimque exitum est maxumā copiā, Dispertiti viri ... tubae utrimque canunt: contra Consonat terra: clamorem utrimque efferunt, Imperator utrimque hinc et illinc Jovi vota suscipere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 65 sq.: magnae utrimque copiae, Cic. Fam. 6, 4, 1: acriter utrimque usque ad vesperum pugnatum est, Caes. B. G. 1, 50: multis utrimque interfectis, id. ib. 7, 42: ceteros utrimque aggreditur, Sall. C. 60, 5: ni utrimque praemissi equites rem exploravissent, id. J. 53, 7: tigna binis utrinque fibulis distinebantur, one on each side, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: continebitur marginibus, Quint. 1, 1, 27: sustinentium manibus, id. 1, 2, 7: praecisa vipera, at both ends, i. e. head and tail, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 121.—B. Connected with secus (sometimes written in one word, utrimquesecus), along or on both sides, on either hand (ante- and post-class.):
quare utrimque secus cum corpus vapulet, Lucr. 4, 939 (936): canes utrimque secus deae latera muniunt, App. M. 2, p. 116, 8; Mart. Cap. 5, § 464; 6, § 719.—II. Trop.:
(Alcumena) Utrimque est gravida et ex viro et ex summo Jove, Plaut. Am. prol. 111: utrimque constitit fides, both parties kept their word, Liv. 2, 13, 9: Piso M. Crasso et Scriboniā genitus nobilis utrimque, Tac. H. 1, 14 fin.; Plin. 8, 42, 66, § 163 (al. utrique); cf. id. 8, 47, 72, § 187: virtus est medium vitiorum et utrimque reductum, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 9: alia sunt non necessaria, vel utrimque vel ab alterā parte, Quint. 5, 10, 81; 5, 13, 1: causas veras modo et utrimque tractet, i. e. pro et contra, id. 10, 5, 20.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
utrimque (utrinque) adv.
uterque, on both sides, on either hand, from each side, on the one side and on the other : clamor utrinque, Undique concursus, H.: magnae utrimque copiae: multis utrimque interfectis, Cs.: tigna binis utrimque fibulis distinebantur, one on each side , Cs.: utrimque constitit fides, i. e. both parties kept their word , L.: utrimque anxii, i. e. afraid of both parties , Ta.
Origins
Adverbial accusative formed on uterque (“either, both, each”), compare its accusative form utrumque and the development of the adverbial suffix -tim, as well as multum.