quidam

From Latin quīdam.

quidam (plural quidams)

1. A nobody; a person of no importance. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:

     A quidam gallant determined upon a time to surprise both my house and my selfe.

quidam m (plural quidams)

1. Used to designate persons whose name are unknown or not mentioned.
2. Person whose identity is not indicated, in a conversation, a writing.
3. Individual.

From Latin quī (pronoun) + -dam (demonstrative ending).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷiː.dam/, [ˈkᶣiː.dã]

quīdam m (feminine quaedam, neuter quiddam)

1. someone, a certain one/thing; something

Do not confuse with quidem.

quīdam m (feminine quaedam, neuter quoddam)

1. Certain (person or thing), some (person or thing), one [in the sense of "a specific"] (person or thing not previously introduced in the present discourse).

• quondam
• quiddam, substantive

• quidam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quidam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quidam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quidam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have a few words to say on this: mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac re