The corpus record — Latin

quisnam

who

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Where it lives

Saturae 6 · 13.25/10k
Andria 10 · 10.15/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 8 · 7.29/10k
Adelphi 7 · 7.07/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4 · 6.86/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Epidicus 4 · 6.14/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Eunuchus 6 · 5.53/10k
Heautontimorumenos 6 · 5.46/10k
In Rufinum 3 · 5.24/10k

Densest 12 of 157 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quisnam — Lewis & Short

quisnam, quaenam, quidnam,

I pron. interrog. [quis-nam], who, which, what pray (class.).

I In direct interrogation: quisnam igitur tuebitur P. Scipionis memoriam mortui? Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 36, § 80: sed earum artificem quem? Quemnam? id. ib. 2, 4, 3, § 5: cruciatur cor mihi et metuo. Ca. Quidnam id est? Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 45: sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimatum video? for what pray? why pray? Ter. And. 1, 4, 7; id. Ad. 3, 2, 7; id. And. 2, 6, 18: quisnam igitur liber? Hor. S. 2, 7, 83.— Sometimes joined, pleon., with num: num quidnam amplius tibi cum illā fuit? pray had you nothing further to do with her? Ter. And. 2, 1, 25: num quisnam praeterea? nemo est, any body else? Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107: num quidnam, Crassus inquit, novi? is there any thing new? id. de Or. 2, 3, 13.— Sometimes separated: in aedibus quid tibi meis nam erat negoti? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 13: quid tu, malum, nam me retrahis? id. Rud. 4, 3, 8; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 26.— Quisnam as fem.: quis ea est nam optuma? Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 16.— In the poets nam sometimes stands before quis: nam quae haec anus est? Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 5: nam quis te nostras Jussit adire domos? Verg. G. 4, 445. —

II In indirect discourse: reviso, quidnam Chaerea hic rerum gerat, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 1: ut sciam num quidnam afferat, etc., id. And. 1, 4, 8: miserunt Delphos consultum, quidnam facerent de rebus suis, Nep. Them. 2.

In the wild

quidnam Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.36.12.1
quidnam Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.4.3
quemnam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.61
quidnam Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.22.7
quasnam Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.6.8
quidnam Propertius, Elegiae 3.10.1

6 of 613 attestations shown.

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