Quidamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

quidam (複数形 quidams)

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

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

   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 77:

     She singing a miserable ditty, a bead-roll of lamentable rhymes, strung together by this Quidam!—This Henley!

Latin

語源

From quī +‎ -dam (demonstrative ending).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷiː.dam/, [ˈkʷiːd̪ä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwi.dam/, [ˈkwiːd̪äm]

代名詞

quīdam (feminine quaedam, neuter quiddam); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

1. someone, a certain one/thing; something
   • (Can we date this quote?), Seneca, Epistulae ad Luculium, III, 28:

     Quidam vitiis gloriantur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with quidem.

語形変化

Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

¹In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi または quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).

形容詞

quīdam (feminine quaedam, neuter quoddam); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

1. certain (person または thing), some (person または thing), one (in the sense of "a specific" person または thing not previously introduced in the present discourse)
   • c. 62 BCE, Cicero, chapter 1, in Pro Archia Poeta‎^[1], §2:

     etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.

     Indeed all the arts, which pertain to humanity, have some common link and by a certain almost-kindred are held together.

語形変化

Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

¹In Republican Latin or earlier, alternative spellings could be found for the following forms of quī/quis and its compounds: the masculine nominative singular or plural quī (old spelling quei), the genitive singular cuius (old spelling quoius), the dative singular cui (old spelling quoi または quoiei), the dative/ablative plural quīs (old spelling queis).

参考

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quidam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have a few words to say on this: mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac re