ecqui
Latin
Usage notes
- ecquī is used adjectivally, and also substantivally:
- Plautus, Stichus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. V of five volumes, 1952, p. 28f.:
- qui cena poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?
- Who offers a dinner? (silence) Anyone offer a lunch? (more silence)
- qui cena poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?
- Plautus, Stichus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. V of five volumes, 1952, p. 28f.:
- ecquī is attested in the plural:
- Plautus, Pseudolus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. IV of five volumes, 1930, p. 200f.:
- Ecquas viginti minas
paritas ut auferas a me?- And you are making ready to get eighty pounds out of me ?
- Ecquas viginti minas
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Ex Ponto, liber IV. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 464f.:
- ecquos tu silices, ecquod, carissime, ferrum
duritiae confers, Albinovane, meae ?- Can you compare any flint, Albinovanus, any iron to my endurance ?
- ecquos tu silices, ecquod, carissime, ferrum
- Plautus, Pseudolus, actus I. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. IV of five volumes, 1930, p. 200f.:
See also
References
- ecqui in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ecqui in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ecqui in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 570
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