Ecquis — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Tacitus 4 · 12.96/10k
Truculentus 7 · 8.54/10k
Mostellaria 8 · 8.31/10k
Persa 6 · 7.63/10k
Pseudolus 8 · 7.23/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Menaechmi 6 · 6.32/10k
Bacchides 6 · 6.08/10k
Pro A. Caecina 6 · 5.78/10k
Eunuchus 6 · 5.53/10k
Poenulus 6 · 5.44/10k

Densest 12 of 109 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ecquis — Lewis & Short

ecquis, ecquid (

abl. ecqui,

I v. infra, II. B.), pron. interrog. subst., Is there any one who? Any, any one, any body, any thing? in impassioned interrogation, i. q. num quis, quid (class.).

I Prop.: aperite hoc: heus, ecquis hic est? ecquis hoc aperit ostium? Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 12; so, ecquis, id. Bacch. 4, 1, 9 sq.; id. Most. 4, 2, 19 sq.; id. Capt. 2, 3, 99 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 16 sq.; Liv. 3, 68; Verg. A. 9, 51; Hor. S. 2, 7, 34 al.: ecquid, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 58; id. Curc. 1, 2, 39; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 34; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 62; id. Att. 12, 7; id. Fam. 7, 11; Liv. 40, 40 al.: eccui, Cic. Mur. 33: ecquem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 42; Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8, 15 et saep.— With suffix nam, Cic. Vatin. 16; id. Fin. 4, 24; id. Top. 21; Auct. Her. 2, 17: quid huc tantum hominum incedunt? ecquidnam afferunt? Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5.—

B Adj. for ecqui: ecquis alius Sosia intu'st, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 226; id. Most. 2, 1, 7; id. Men. 4, 2, 110; Liv. 23, 12 fin.; Verg. E. 10, 28; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 15 al.—

II Hence, derivv. the adverbs,

A ecquid, i. q. numquid, num, whether, perchance, in direct and indirect interrogation: ecquid audis? Do you hear? Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 29; id. Aul. 2, 3, 3; id. Curc. 2, 8, 19; id. Bacch. 1, 2, 53 al.; Ter. And. 5, 2, 30; id. Eun. 2, 2, 48; Cic. Clu. 26, 71; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122; id. Rep. 3, 11; id. Tusc. 1, 8; id. Att. 2, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 11 fin.; 4, 3; 5, 52; Verg. A. 3, 342; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 82 et saep.; cf. with tandem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: Tr. Ecquid placent (aedes)? Th. Ecquid placeant me rogas? Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 4; id. Bacch. 4, 10, 10; id. Mil. 3, 1, 114; 4, 2, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 16, 3; Liv. 27, 10; 44, 27.—Rarely (like quid) for cur, Liv. 42, 26.—*

B ecqui, i. q. num aliqui, whether? in indirect interrog.: coepi observare, ecqui majorem filius mi honorem haberet, etc., whether, etc., Plaut. Aul. prol. 16 (but the true reading, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 15, and Plin. Ep. 6, 4, 2, is ecquid, v. Draeger, Hist Synt. I. p. 318).—

C ec-quo, i. q. num aliquo, anywhere? ecquo te tua virtus provexisset? ecquo industria? Cic. Phil. 13, 11, 24, cf. on these adverbs Hand, Turs. II. pp. 351-355.

2. ecquis — Walde–Hofmann

ecquis, ecquid, adj. eequi (selten subst.), ecquae u. -a, ecquod „etwa einer, wohl irgendeiner ?* (seit Naev. bzw. Enn, in der Volkssprache der Kaiserzeit absterbend [nicht z. B. bei Caes. Sall. Vitr. Tac]. eequälis, e „wie wohl beschaffen?* (Gell), ecguando „wann wohl, ob wohl jemals?“ (seit Quadrig., -öne seit Cic.): wohl mit demselben *ed (Partikel der Hervorhebung = Nir. Sg. ed „das“; vgl vom St. i- ai. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ecquis, p. 423]

In the wild

ecquid Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.13.p2
ecquid Pliny the Younger, Letters 3.20.11
ecquis Plautus, Casina 2.2
Ecquis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.26.4.p2
ecquid Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.4.6
ecquid Plautus, Truculentus 2.6

6 of 332 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ecquis (scan pp. 423-424; entry #991).