quivis

Latin

Etymology

From quī +‎ vīs.

Pronoun

quīvis (feminine quaevīs, neuter quidvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

  1. whoever you will, anyone, anything
  2. whatever (you will), whatsoever

Declension

Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative quīvis quaevīs quidvīs quīvīs1 quaevīs
Genitive cuiusvīs1 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs		 quārunvīs
quārumvīs		 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
Dative cuivīs1 quibusvīs
quīsvīs1
Accusative quenvīs
quemvīs		 quanvīs
quamvīs		 quidvīs quōsvīs quāsvīs quaevīs
Ablative quōvīs quāvīs quōvīs quibusvīs
quīsvīs1

1In Republican Latin or earlier, quī was often spelled as quei, cuius as quoius, cui as quoi (or quoiei), and quīs as queis.

Determiner

quīvis (feminine quaevīs, neuter quodvīs); relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

  1. whichever, whatever (person or thing)

Usage notes
  • The pronoun is used in place of a noun, while the determiner is used in place of an adjective (e.g. whichever man, whatever speech). The declensions differ only in the neuter nominative/accusative singular: quidvīs as a pronoun, quodvīs as a determiner.

Declension

Relative/interrogative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative quīvis quaevīs quodvīs quīvīs1 quaevīs
Genitive cuiusvīs1 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs		 quārunvīs
quārumvīs		 quōrunvīs
quōrumvīs
Dative cuivīs1 quibusvīs
quīsvīs1
Accusative quenvīs
quemvīs		 quanvīs
quamvīs		 quodvīs quōsvīs quāsvīs quaevīs
Ablative quōvīs quāvīs quōvīs quibusvīs
quīsvīs1

1In Republican Latin or earlier, quī was often spelled as quei, cuius as quoius, cui as quoi (or quoiei), and quīs as queis.

See also

References
  • “quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quivis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • all learned men: omnes docti, quivis doctus, doctissimus quisque

Portuguese

Noun

quivis

  1. plural of quivi
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