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- Are different meanings of quam and -quam related?
quisquam, quicquam is an indefinite pronoun formed by the addition of the indefinite suffix -quam to quis, quid antequam or priusquam (conj ): before quamquam (conj ) although quam primum, as soon as possible umquam (adv ) ever What does -quam mean in those compound words? Are the meanings of -quam related to the meanings of quam? Thanks
- Is the female accusative singular relative pronoun quem or quam?
This grid on Wiktionary gives quem for the singular feminine accusative of the relative pronoun quis According to books by Kennedy, Gwynne and Henry Cullen this should be quam Please can you tell
- Is quam an adjective or adverb? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
The first thing to understand is that quam ob rem is a fossilized prepositional phrase The preposition ob takes an accusative object and means “on account of ” The object of ob is rem (accusative singular of res), which means “matter, issue, state of affairs ” Quam is a form of the pronominal adjective qui; it is accusative feminine singular because it modifies rem Much like the
- Jenneys First Year Latin, Lesson 37, comparatives with quam
Quam is necessarily used where an ablative of comparison would cause ambiguity : terra maior est quam luna or dico terram maiorem esse quam lunam If the comparison is made in attaching a negative clause to the antecedent by means of a relative pronoun, the ablative is used, never quam : Punicum bellum, quo nullum maius Romani gesserunt
- Subjunctive with adverb “quam” - Latin Language Stack Exchange
Passage: “Quam autem civitati carus fuerit, maerore funeris indicatum est ” Cic Amic 11 My translation in English: «Moreover, how dear he was to the citizenry was indicated by the grief of his
- What does the Lorem Ipsum mean? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
"Lorem ipsum" is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation But what does it mean? Can you give a brief review of the text's origin? Lorem
- Origin and actual quote of the proverb Caesars wife must be above . . .
The Latin version is sometimes loosely quoted as "Uxorem Caesaris tam suspicione quam crimine carere oportet" (Caesar's wife should be free from suspicion, as well as from accusation) Plutarch and Suetonius were contemporaries Plutarch lived from between c 45-125 AD and Suetonius c 69-122 AD
- Does plurimi imply vast majority in Augustines Enchiridion?
5 One can use quam as an intensifier of plurimi, so that quam plurimi is most naturally translated as "very many" as in the translation you cite, or perhaps "quite many" There are several classical attestations of quam plurim- Looking at those examples, I think reading quam plurimi as necessarily meaning "vast majority" is an over-analysis
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