The corpus record — Latin

quamlibet

quamlibet · adv

As it pleases

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 3 · 5.72/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Ars Amatoria 4 · 2.69/10k
Tristia 5 · 2.19/10k
Epistulae 5 · 1.96/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Institutio Oratoria 27 · 1.57/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quam-lĭbet — Lewis & Short

quam-lĭbet (-lŭbet), adv.

I As it pleases, as you (they, etc.) will, at pleasure: quamlubet esto unica res, Lucr. 2, 541: lambe otio, Phaedr. 1, 24, 6.—

II In gen., how much soever, ever so much, howsoever: quodvis quamlibet tenue munusculum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3: occupat egressas quamlibet ante rates, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 5: infirmae manus, howsoever weak, id. Am. 1, 7, 66: quamlibet parum sit, however inconsiderable it may be, Quint. 1, 1, 18; 1, 12, 5; 5, 13, 56; 12, 1, 29: specularis lapis finditur in quamlibet tenues crustas, Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 160; 3, 5, 9, § 54; 6, 4, 4, § 13: hoc pretio quamlibet numerosa subsellia inplentur, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 6; 10, 96 (97), 2; id. Pan. 61, 2: quamlibet pulchra elocutio, Quint. 2, 4, 32; 12, 8, 7; 8, 6, 4.—

B For quamvis, although (post-class.), Sol. 9.

In the wild

quamlibet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.4
quamlibet Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.10.9
quamlibet Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p2
quamlibet Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1263
quamlibet Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96.2
quamlibet Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.2.12

6 of 111 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quamlibet (scan p. 575; entry #9434).

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