usque

Abbreviation of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (“water of life”). Compare whisky and obsolete whiskybae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌskweɪ/

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usque (countable and uncountable, plural usques)

1. (obsolete) whisky

From Proto-Italic *ūskʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *úds-kʷe, from *úd-s (“out, outward”, genitive) +‎ *-kʷe (“and”). Cognate with Sanskrit उच्चा (uccā́), Younger Avestan 𐬎𐬯𐬗𐬀‎ (usca).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuːs.kʷe/, [ˈuːs̠kʷɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈus.kwe/, [ˈuskwe]

ūsque (not comparable)

1. all the way
2. until, up to (sometimes with "ad")
3. constantly, continuously
   • c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 1) 1.3:

     ab ōvō ūsque ad māla

     from the beginning to the end

     (literally, “from the egg to the apples”)

   • (Can we date this quote?), Latin Vulgate translation of Psalm 72:8;Canadian national motto

     Ā marī ūsque ad mare.

• abūsque
• usquequāque

• French: jusque
• Occitan: duscas

• “usque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “usque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• usque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine: haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenum
    
  • from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    
• usque in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016