quominus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]quominus (uncountable)
- (law, historical, sometimes attributive) A writ and legal fiction that (until the late 19th century) allowed the Court of Exchequer to obtain a jurisdiction over cases normally brought in the Court of Common Pleas, based on having the plaintiff in a debt case claim that he was a debtor to the king, and that the defendant's debt prevented him paying the king.
- a quominus clause
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From instrumental quō + minus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷoː.mi.nus/, [ˈkʷoːmɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwo.mi.nus/, [ˈkwɔːminus]
Conjunction
[edit]quōminus
References
[edit]- “quominus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quominus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.