English search results for: Quid

#1

conjunction

Definitions:

  1. if, if only
  2. whether
  3. [quod si/si quis or quid => but if/if anyone or anything]
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

adverb

Definitions:

  1. if ... not
  2. unless
  3. [quid ni? => why not?]
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (answers question quid est res)
  2. quiddity, what a thing is, essence of a thing
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Roy J. Deferrari, “Dictionary of St”. Thomas Aquinas, 1960 (DeF)