ecquis

Pronoun

 * 1) Is there anyone who?, Is there anybody who?
 * Percontabor ecquis adolescentem nouerit.
 * I will ask whether any man did know the young fellow.
 * 1) * Plautus, Menaechmi, actus IV. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. II of five volumes, 1917, p. 432f.:
 * Percontabor ecquis adolescentem nouerit.
 * I will ask whether any man did know the young fellow.
 * 1) * Plautus, Menaechmi, actus IV. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. II of five volumes, 1917, p. 432f.:

Usage notes

 * Normatively, is a determiner (used adjectivally) and  is a pronoun (used substantively), but the opposite usages can be found, even among the best Classical writers.
 * The feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural forms are normally, but is also found. The feminine nominative plural can only be.
 * Only certain forms are well attested in Classical Latin.
 * The dative is rare, being found only twice, in Cicero's Pro Murena and Philippicae, per current editions of these texts.
 * The following forms are unattested in Classical Latin (although some grammars list them and they may perhaps be findable in more recent texts): genitive singular, masculine/neuter genitive plural , feminine genitive plural , dative/ablative plural (some grammars list the alternative form , i.e. ). The genitive  occurs in a proposed reading of Boethius's Philosophiae consolatio (where other editions have 'et cuius').

Adjective

 * 1)  is there any?
 * Ecquo de homine?
 * Of what man?
 * 1) * Plautus, Amphitruo, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. I of five volumes, 1916, p. 90f.:
 * 2) * Plautus, Mostellaria, actus II. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. III of five volumes, 1924, p. 324f.:
 * 3) * Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber XXIII. In: Livy with an English translation; translated by Frank Gardner Moore, volume VI of thirteen volumes containing books XXIII—XXV, 1940, p. 38–41:
 * 4) * Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecologae, ecologa X. In: Virgil with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, vol. I of two volumes, 1916, p. 72f.:
 * 1) * Titus Livius, ab urbe condita libri, liber XXIII. In: Livy with an English translation; translated by Frank Gardner Moore, volume VI of thirteen volumes containing books XXIII—XXV, 1940, p. 38–41:
 * 2) * Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecologae, ecologa X. In: Virgil with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, vol. I of two volumes, 1916, p. 72f.:
 * 1) * Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecologae, ecologa X. In: Virgil with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, vol. I of two volumes, 1916, p. 72f.:
 * 1) * Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecologae, ecologa X. In: Virgil with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, vol. I of two volumes, 1916, p. 72f.:

Declension
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