quispiamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷɪs.pi.ãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷis.pi.am]

代名詞

quispiam (feminine quaepiam, neuter quidpiam or quippiam); interrogative/indefinite pronoun with an indeclinable portion

1. (chiefly in the positive) anybody, anything
2. (chiefly in the positive) somebody, something
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 5.35:

     Quo praecepto ab eis diligentissime observato, cum quaepiam cohors ex orbe excesserat atque impetum fecerat, hostes velocissime refugiebant.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Interrogative/indefinite pronoun with an indeclinable portion.

Republican Latin.
Quī is occasionally used as an ablative singular, whence quīcum (“with whom”); it was originally preferred in instrumental meanings.

• The plural is very rare.
• The feminine nominative singular quaepiam may be unattested in Classical Latin as a pronoun (it is found as an adjective; see below).

形容詞

quispiam (feminine quaepiam, neuter quodpiam); relative/interrogative determiner with an indeclinable portion

1. any
2. some

語形変化

Relative/interrogative determiner with an indeclinable portion.

Republican Latin.
Quī is occasionally used as an ablative singular, whence quīcum (“with whom”); it was originally preferred in instrumental meanings.

• The plural is very rare.

引用

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, in a letter at Varro. In: M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad Quintum Fratrem, ad M. Brutum, et quae vulgo ad Familiares dicuntur, temporis ordine dispositae. Tomus IX. – M. Tullius Cicero's sämmtliche Briefe, übersetzt und erläutert von C. M. Wieland. Neunter Band, Wien und Triest, 1814, p. 232:

  Quamquam tum quidem vel aliae quaepiam rationes, honestas nobiset curas, et actiones darent: nunc autem quid est, sine his cur vivere velimus?

• Apulejus Madaurensis, Florida. In: Apuleii opera omnia ex editione oudendorpiana, vol. II., London, 1825, p. 922:

  Satis, inquit, mihi fuerit mercedis, Thales sapiens, si id, quod a me didicisti, cum proferre ad quospiam coeperis, tibi non asciveris, sed ejus inventi me potius, quam alium, repertorem praedicaveris.

  4 Post inquit voces Th. sapiens ponit Floridus. Id.—5 Abest non a Coll. Voss. Id.—6 Praedicaveris. Pith. praedicaris. Ed. Vic. praedicatis. Id.

  • The wise Thales replied, It will be a sufficient reward to me, if you do not publish what I have taught you as a discovery of your own, but fairly declare that I am the inventor.
  • 'It is enough recompense,' replied Thales the wise, 'if you will refrain from claiming as your own the theory I have taught you, whenever you begin to impart it to others, and will proclaim me and no other as the discoverer of this new law.'

参考

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Further reading

• “quispiam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quispiam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quispiam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.