The corpus record — Latin

quonam

quonam · adv

Whither pray?

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 12 · 4.88/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 4 · 3.8/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 98 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quō-nam — Lewis & Short

quō-nam, adv.

I Whither pray? (class.): quo tu te agis? Char. Quonam, nisi domum? Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 71; id. Merc. 5, 2, 16: eam si nunc sequor, quonam? Cic. Att. 8, 3, 5: quonam haec omnia, nisi ad suam perniciem pertinere? Caes. B. C. 1, 9, 4.—

II How far pray? quonam usque? Stat. Th. 1, 215; 9, 511; id. Achill. 1, 624; Gell. 1, 3, 19.

In the wild

quonam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.1.a
quonam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.23.p2
quonam Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.4.3
quonam Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.31.33.6
Quonam Cicero, Brutus 150
quonam Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.3.4

6 of 242 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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