quis

Etymology
From, past participle of.

Etymology 1
From, from. See there for cognates.

Pronoun

 * 1)  who
 * 2)  what
 * 3)  what
 * 4)  who
 * 5)  why, what for
 * 6)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any
 * 1)  what
 * 2)  who
 * 3)  why, what for
 * 4)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any
 * 1)  who
 * 2)  why, what for
 * 3)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any
 * 1)  why, what for
 * 2)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any
 * 1)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any
 * 1)  someone, something, anyone, anything; any

Usage notes

 * As a question word, quis usually occupies the first position in a clause, regardless of its syntactic function (although it may be preceded by a connector or a pragmatically fronted constituent).
 * In a question that does not contain a copular verb, the interrogative pronoun is usually masculine singular (quis) when asking for the identity of some person(s) and neuter singular (quid) when asking for the identity of some thing. In all periods of Latin, the masculine forms of quis can be used as a generic interrogative pronoun with a scope including both male and female beings despite its masculine grammatical gender (compare the generic sense of the masculine noun ).
 * In questions that contain a form of the copula and a noun in the nominative case in addition to a nominative form of, the form of  may match the gender and number of the noun by attraction.  In this context, any form of quis can mean either "who" or "what": the meaning depends on the sense of the noun, while the form and grammatical gender is derived from agreement with the grammatical gender of the noun. But it is also possible alternatively for the neuter singular form quid to be used as a predicative pronoun with the sense "what" in a question with a masculine, feminine or plural subject, with no agreement in gender or number between the subject and the predicate. According to Lebreton, agreement is rarer than the use of the non-agreeing neuter interrogative pronoun, but neither is exceptional. It is not always simple in copular questions to determine whether a form of  is acting as an interrogative pronominal subject, an interrogative pronominal predicate, or an interrogative adjective (see also ), since the same grammatical case is used for all of these functions, and as mentioned above, Latin regularly places an interrogative word first regardless of its syntactic function in a clause.

Declension

 * An archaic form of the nominative plural is (found on the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus).
 * In the early Latin of Ennius, Pacuvius, and Plautus, the form is sometimes used as a feminine nominative singular predicative interrogative pronoun or a feminine singular interrogative adjective, not only including women in a generic sense, but even in reference to a specific woman (see Citations:quis). But use of the form quis as a specifically feminine pronoun is rare in later time periods. The feminine nominative singular form  is also attested in reference to a woman or in agreement with a feminine noun (see Citations:quae), but it can be difficult to determine whether feminine interrogative  is a form of the pronoun, or a form of the interrogative adjective  (which can be used substantivally).

Adjective

 * 1)  which

Declension
See.

Descendants
See qui.

Pronoun

 * I