Quantiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

quantī (indeclinable)

1. ellipsis of quantī pretiī (“of what price”):
   1. (interrogative) at what price, how dear, how much
      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 2.2.114:

        Quanti emi potest minimo?

        How cheap can I buy it?

   2. how dear, how worthy, how important, valuable, etc.
      • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 3.10.2:

        Nollem accidisset tempus, in quo perspicere posses, quanti te, quanti Pompeium, quem unum ex omnibus facio, ut debeo, plurimi, quanti Brutum facerem

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   3. (relative) as dear as, at the same price as, as important as

      Coordinate term: tantī

      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 4.7.22–23:

        terrai odium ambulat, iam nil sapit
        nec sentit, tantist quantist fungus putidus.

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      • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Iuli 42:

        De pecuniis mutuis disiecta novarum tabularum expectatione, quae crebro movebatur, decrevit tandem, ut debitores creditoribus satis facerent per aestimationem possessionum, quanti quasque ante civile bellum comparassent, [...]

        Now, regarding the debts of his people, he deceived common expectations at the time when not outright cancelling them. He in fact ordered that debtors were to pay what they owed to creditors according to valuation of their estates, at the price which they had purchased them before the advent of the Civil War, [...]