LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

usquam

usquam

anywhere, in any situation

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Densest 12 of 120 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. usquam — de Vaan

usquam 'anywhere, in any situation' [adv.] (Pl>) Derivatives: rtusquam 'nowhere' (P1-+), uspiam 'somewhere, anywhere' (P1.+). Probably compounds of *us < *ut-(V)s '& that, as' plus indefinitizing -quam and -piam < *pe-iam (see s.v. -pe). The sigmatic extension to ut is also found O. puz, U. — [de Vaan, s.v. usquam, p. 660]

2. usquam — Lewis & Short

usquam, adv.us for ubs, from ubi; indef. suffix quam, as in quisquam, etc.; cf. usque,

I at or in any place, anywhere (usu. in neg. clauses, while uspiam, corresp. to quispiam, is used also affirmatively).
I Lit.: iste, cui nullus esset usquam consistendi locus, etc., Cic. Fl. 21, 50: numquam etiam fui usquam, quin, etc., Ter. Eun. 5, 9 (8), 62: neque quiescam usquam noctu neque interdiu, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 21: nec usquam insistentes, Quint. 10, 7, 6: neque omnino hujus rei meminit usquam poëta ipse, id. 11, 2, 16.—Of place in books or in history: quo neque acutius ullius imperatoris cogitatum neque celerius factum usquam legimus, Nep. Dat. 6, 8.—With gen.: nec sane usquam terrarum locum, etc., Just. 3, 3, 9. —
(b) In neg. interrog. sentences: num ejus color pudoris signum usquam indicat? Ter. And. 5, 3, 7.—With gen.: an quisquam usquam gentium est aeque miser? Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 13.—
(g) In conditional clauses: si quid Usquam justitia est, Verg. A. 1, 604: si usquam, Quint. 6, 1, 51; 11, 1, 54.—
b Affirmatively: miror te, cum Romā absis, usquam potius esse, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 2: unde quod est usquam ... Inspicitur, Ov. M. 12, 41: implorare quod usquam est, Verg. A. 7, 311. —
B Of other relations than those of place, in any thing, in any way; with neg., by no means, in no respect, etc. (rare but class.): neque istic neque alibi tibi usquam erit in me mora, Ter. And. 2, 5, 9: neque esset usquam consilio aut auctoritati locus, Cic. Off. 2, 1, 2: non usquam id quidem dicit omnino, id. Tusc. 5, 9, 24: Jugurtha neque advorsus iram ejus (populi Romani) usquam nisi avaritiā nobilitatis et pecuniā suā spem habere, Sall. J. 13, 5.—
II Transf. *
A Of value: alicui usquam esse, to be of any account or importance (cf.: nullo loco habere, etc.): quasi jam usquam tibi sint viginti minae, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 15 (Bentl. ex conj.: quasi hujus jam tibi).—
B With verbs of motion, to any place, anywhither, anywhere: duci potis est si ea usquam gentium, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 91: velut usquam Vinctus eas, Hor. S. 2, 7, 30.—
2 In gen., at all: nec vero usquam discedebam, Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 1: neque progredi usquam, Varr. R. R. 2. 4, 11: (formica) non usquam prorepit, Hor. S. 1, 1, 37: moveri Haud usquam potuit, Ov. M. 4, 553: prius, quam Tissaphernes usquam se moveret, Nep. Ages. 3, 2.

In the wild

6 of 364 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. usquam (scan p. 660; entry #1895). Root candidates: *ut-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. usquam (scan p. 220; entry #3406).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.