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quot

quot

how many?, as many as

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 194 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. quot — de Vaan

quot 'how many?, as many as' [adj. indecl.] (P1.+) Derivatives: cottidie 'every day, daily' (P1.+), cottidianus 'normal, regular, daily' (Pl.+X quotanms [adv.] 'annually' (P1.+), quotiens 'how many times?, as often as' (PL+), quotquot 'however many' (Varro+), quotumus [adj.] 'the howmanieth?', quotus [adj.] 'howmanieth, in what proportion?' (Lucr.+). Pit. *ΓοΛ\ PIE *kwe/o-ti 'how many'. IE cognates: Skt. kati 'how … — [de Vaan, s.v. quot, p. 525]

2. quŏt — Lewis & Short

quŏt (in MSS. often quŏd),

I adj. plur. indecl. [kindr. with Sanscr. kati, quot, like tot, Sanscr. tati].
I Lit., how many, as many, as: quot sunt? Sce. Totidem, quot ego et tu sumus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 6; id. Most. 3, 1, 114: quot homines, tot sententiae, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 14: quot homines, tot causae, Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 140: quot dies erimus in Tusculano, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: quot calamitates! id. ib. 1, 35, 86: quot orationum genera esse diximus, totidem oratorum reperiuntur, id. Or. 16, 53: idque declarat totidem quot dixit, scripta verbis oratio, id. Brut. 96, 328; Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 47; Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; Juv. 7, 225.—
B For quotiens; toties, quot, as often as, Liv. 2, 13, 2.—
II Transf., in specifications of time, all, each, every: quot diebus, every day, daily: quot mensibus, every month, monthly: quot annis, often as one word, quotannis (in inscrr. also, QVOD ANNIS), every year, yearly, annually: quot Kalendis petere cibum, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 3: quot mensibus fodere, Cato, R. R. 43, 2: quotannis tributa conferre, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131: hic illum vidi juvenem, Meliboee, quot annis, Verg. E. 1, 43: quot annos singula milia, Caes. B. G. 4, 1: Pomponius scribit, nihil interesse, utrum in annos singulos, vel quot annis; an in singulos menses, vel quot mensibus; an in singulos dies, vel quot diebus legatur, Dig. 36, 2, 12: sedulum quot dies obibam culturae sacrorum ministerium, App. M. 11, p. 267, 29.

3. quot — Walde–Hofmann

quot ,wie viele?; so viele als^ (seit Carm. Sal. Plaut. Cato [oft korrelativ mit Zot]); quotannis [-od- Inschr.] seit Plt. und Cato, vgl. guotquot (quodquod) annis ds. seit Varro, hypostasiert guotennis „von wie viel Jahren" Aug., quotkalendis Plt.; quottididnus „täglich“ seit Cic., rom. [neben *quottidium vgl. cottidi& oben I 282), quotälis Anthim. [ALL. 3, 500, vgl. italien. cotale], quotcunque „wie viele nur“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. quot, p. 1318]

In the wild

6 of 829 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. quot (scan p. 525; entry #1454). Root candidates: *kwotjo-, *kwo-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quot (scan p. 584; entry #9567).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. quot (scan p. 1318; entry #2226).

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