cui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cui"

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

cui

1. (transitive) To take.
2. (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:

     Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• (sex) teca, yecoa, tetech ahci, cuicui

Derived terms

• cuicui
• cuiloni

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 71
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cui. Compare Sicilian cui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuj/
• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: cùi

Pronoun

cui (relative)

1. prepositional of che: whom; which
2. (formal) dative of che: to whom; to which

Synonyms

• (prepositional): il quale
• (dative): a cui; al quale

Derived terms

• per cui

Determiner

cui (invariable) (relative)

1. (with definite article) whose

   la donna il cui nome ho scordato ― the woman whose name I’ve forgotten

   la donna le cui amiche sono incinte ― the woman whose friends are pregnant

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kui̯/, [kʊi̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuj/, [kuj]

Pronoun

cui

1. to whom? (interrogative); dative singular of quis

Pronoun

cui

1. to whom, to which (relative); dative singular of quī

Adjective

cui

1. to what?, to which? (interrogative); dative singular of quī

Related terms

• cui bonō – who benefits
• cui malō – who suffers

Descendants

• Italian: cui
• Old French: cui
• Romanian: cui

See also

• cui bono on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
    
  • the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
    
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
    

Lombard

Alternative forms

• cuu (Milanese classical orthography)
• cüü (Ticinese orthography)
• cüi (Eastern modern orthographies)

Pronunciation

• (Western Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [kyː(i̯)]
• (Eastern Lombard) IPA^(key): /kyːi/, [ky(ː)i̯]

Noun

cui

1. plural of cul (“arse, bum”)

Mandarin

Romanization

cui

1. Nonstandard spelling of cuī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cuǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cuì.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old French

Pronoun

cui

1. Alternative form of qui

Old Occitan

Pronoun

cui

1. who; whom
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo rossinhols s'esbaudeya:

     Mas no sai de que ni de cui,

     But I don't know of what or of whom,

See also

• que

Romanian

Alternative forms

• cuni (Banat Dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuj/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”).

Noun

cui n (plural cuie)

1. nail (metal fastener), pin
2. (slang) marijuana cigarette

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cui	cuiul		cuie	cuiele
genitive-dative	cui	cuiului		cuie	cuielor
vocative	cuiule			cuielor

Derived terms

• cuier
• cuia
• cuișor

Related terms

• încuia
• descuia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cui.

Pronoun

cui (genitive/dative form of cine)

1. whose
2. to whom

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cu (Misspelled)

Etymology

From Latin quis. Compare Italian chi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.i/
• IPA^(key): /ku/ (Apocopic form)
• Rhymes: -cui
• Hyphenation: cù‧i

Pronoun

cui

1. who, whom

Usage notes

The apocopic form cu' is prevalent in usage because it is used to create a more fluent sound of the sentence, becoming a reduced vowel and taking a secondary stress, in the same manner as for dui and du'.

Derived terms

• cu'
• cuegghiè
• cuegghiadè
• cuegghiarè

Spanish

Noun

cui m (plural cuis)

1. Alternative spelling of cuy

Further reading

• “cui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10