doquiera
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Spanish do (“where”) + quiera (“it may want”) with do being a contraction of de (“of”) + o (“in where”), from ubi (“where?”). o has been displaced by donde (from Latin dē (“from”) + unde (“whence”)) in Modern Spanish (hence dondequiera).
Adverb
doquiera
- (dated) everywhere
- 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", 27:
- Fablad doquiera vos vayáis.
- Speak everywhere ye go.
- Doquiera vas, traes desastres.
- Everywhere you go, you bring disasters.
- Synonym: dondequiera
- 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", 27:
- (dated) wherever (when used with que)
- 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", 27:
- Toda la maldat del mundo es doquiera que tu seas.
- All the evil in the world is wherever you are.
- Doquiera que vos vayáis, yo estaré convusco.
- Wherever ye go, I shall be with you.
- Synonym: dondequiera que
- 1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", 27:
Usage notes
- Doquiera and Doquier are rarely used and have been replaced by dondequiera and dondequiera que.
- Both terms are still used in the expression por doquier (“everywhere, all over the place”)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “doquiera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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