quotiens

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

quot +‎ -iēns

Pronunciation

Adverb

quotiēns (not comparable)

  1. how often?, how many times
  2. (comparatively, with totiēns) as often, as often as, as many times as, whenever
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.351–353:
      “Mē patris Anchīsae, quotiēns ūmentibus umbrīs
      nox operit terrās, quotiēns astra ignea surgunt,
      admonet in somnīs et turbida terret imāgō.”
      “[I think] of my father Anchises, whenever dank shades of night shroud the lands, as often as fiery stars arise, he admonishes me in my dreams, and his troubled phantom frightens me.”

Coordinate terms

Latin correlatives (edit)
type demonstrative anaphoric identity interrogative indefinite negative other
proximal medial distal indefinite irrelative / emphatic relative indefinite free choice universal negative polarity
basic hic iste, istic ille, illic is ipse, īdem ecquis, ecquī, ecquisnam, ecquīnam quisnam, quīnam quis/quī quisquis, quīcumque quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam quīvis, quīlibet quisque quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam nēmō, nihil, nūllus alius
possessive* eccuius cuiusnam cuius cuiuscumque alicuius, cuiusdam cuiusvīs cuiusque cuiusquam
comparative (likeness) huiusmodī, huiuscemodī istī̆usmodī illī̆usmodī eiusmodī eiusdemmodī cuiusmodī cuiusmodīcumque alicuiusmodī, cuiusdammodī cuiusvīsmodī cuiusquemodī cuiusquammodī
dual uternam uter utercumque alteruter utervīs, uterlibet uterque neuter alter
place hīc istīc illīc ibī̆ ibī̆dem ubinam ubī̆ ubiubī̆, ubī̆cumque alicubī̆, uspiam ubivīs, ubilibet ubīque usquam nusquam, nūllibī alibī, aliās
source hinc istinc illinc inde indidem undenam unde undecumque, undeunde alicunde °undelibet undique undequam aliunde
destination hūc, °hōrsum istūc, °istōrsum illūc, °illōrsum eō eōdem ecquō quonam quō, quōrsum quōquō, quōcumque aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum quōvīs, quōlibet quōque quōquam nusquam, nūllōrsum aliō, aliōrsum
method,
means,
path,
place 		hāc istāc illāc eā eādem ecquā quānam quā quāquā, quācumque aliquā quāvīs, quālibet quāque °quāquam nēquāquam, haudquāquam aliā
manner hōc modō istō modō illō modō ita, sīc,
eō modō		 item, itidem utinam ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō quōmodolibet utīque utiquam, ūllō modō neutiquam, nūllō modō aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time †num, nunc ōlim tum, tunc simul ecquandō quandō, ‡cum quandōnē, quandōquandō, cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque quondam, aliquandō quandōlibet quandōque umquam numquam aliās
quantity †nam tam †tamen, †tandem quam †quamquam, quamcumque aliquam quamvīs, quamlibet quamque †quamquam
size tantus tantusdem quantus quantusquantus, quantuscumque aliquantus quantusvīs, quantuslibet
extend tantum tantumdem quantum, quantillum quantumcumque aliquantum quantumvīs, quantumlibet
size (smallness) tantulus quantulus, quantillus quantuluscumque aliquantulus quantuluslibet
quality tālis ecquālis quālisnam quālis quālisquālis, quāliscumque aliquālis quālislibet quālisque nihilī
number tot totidem quotinam quot quotquot, quotcumque aliquot quotlibet
order/fractional totus quotus quotuscumque aliquotus quotuslibet
repetition totiēns quotiēns quotiēnscumque aliquotiēns quotiēnslibet quotiēnsque
time (continuous) tamdiū quamdiū quamdiūcumque aliquamdiū quamque diū
multiplication totuplex quotuplex
proportion totuplus quotuplus
distributive quotēnus
time (future) quantūrus
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimilated
° Rare
‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative
* Ridiculed by most grammarians

Descendants

  • Catalan: quocient
  • English: quotient
  • Italian: quoziente
  • Portuguese: quociente, cociente
  • Spanish: cociente

References

  • “quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quotiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “quotiens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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