qualiscumque

Latin

Etymology

From quālis +‎ -cumque.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷaː.lisˈkum.kʷe/, [kʷäːlʲɪs̠ˈkʊŋkʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.lisˈkum.kwe/, [kwälisˈkumkwe]

Determiner

quāliscumque (neuter quālecumque); third-declension two-termination determiner with an indeclinable portion.

1. of what quality soever, of whatever kind, whatsoever sort

   Hospitalis tibi illa qualiscumque sedes erit.

   Any sort of place there will be hospitable to you. (Seneca, Epistulae Morales, III,28)

2. . any, each without distinction (transferred, Late Latin)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective with an indeclinable portion.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	quāliscumque	quālecumque		quālēscumque	quāliacumque
genitive	quāliscumque			quāliumcumque
dative	quālīcumque			quālibuscumque
accusative	quālemcumque	quālecumque		quālēscumque quālīscumque	quāliacumque
ablative	quālīcumque			quālibuscumque
vocative	quāliscumque	quālecumque		quālēscumque	quāliacumque

Descendants

• → Old French: quelesquunques
  • French: quelconque

References

• “qualiscumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press