quier
Spanish
Conjunction
quier ... quier
- (archaic) whether; be it; whether it be; should it be
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Únicamente ocuparon los ociosos ratos fervientes elogios de la acción heroica de D. Silvestre, comentándola quier por el lado humano, quier por el divino
- Idle moments were solely occupied by the fervent praise for the heroic action of Don Silvestre, commenting on it either from the human side, or from the divine side.
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Usage notes
In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).
Further reading
- “quier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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