usque

Abbreviation of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (“water of life”). Compare whisky and obsolete whiskybae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌskweɪ/

usque (countable and uncountable, plural usques)

1. (obsolete) whisky

From Proto-Italic *ūskʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *úds-kʷe, from *úd-s (“out, outward”, genitive) +‎ *-kʷe (“and”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuːs.kʷe/, [ˈuːs.kᶣɛ]

ūsque (not comparable)

1. all the way
2. until, up to (sometimes with "ad")
   • Ab ōvō ūsque ad māla. —Horace

• French: jusque
• Occitan: duscas

• usque in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• usque in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• usque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine: haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenum
    
  • from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    
• usque in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016