The corpus record — Latin

qualibet

where it pleases

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 2 · 0.81/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quālĭbet — Lewis & Short

quālĭbet (-lŭbet,

abl. from quilibet),

I where it pleases, i. e.

I Where you will, everywhere: qualibet perambula aedes, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 122; id. Aul. 4, 4, 19: quisquis amore tenetur, eat tutusque sacerque qualibet, Tib. 1, 2, 27: transitum praebent (flumina), Quint. 5, 13, 13.—

II As you please, anyhow, in any way: qualubet esse notus optas? Cat. 40, 6; 76, 13.

In the wild

qualibet Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.30
qualibet Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.6
qualibet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.1
qualibet Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.1e.5
qualibet Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.6
qualibet Celsus, De Medicina 6.4

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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