quisquis

Etymology
Shared with and ; from  or by reduplication of.

Pronoun

 * 1)  Whoever, whosoever.

Etymology
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Pronoun

 * 1) whoever, whatever

Usage notes

 * This pronoun is rarely used outside the nominative, accusative and vocative cases. For such instances, quis is usually employed.
 * Scaevola with a text out of a testament is cited with the neuter plural quaequae, and Ulpianus is cited with the accusative plural quōsquōs.
 * Titus Livius is cited with dative or ablative plural quibusquibus in ab urbe condita book 41. However, this depends on edition as it is: "liberos suos quibusquibus Romanis in eam condicionem", or "liberos suos quibuslibet Romanis in eam condicionem".
 * Cicero's pro P. Sestio is sometimes cited with the form quiqui, but this does also depend on edition. F. Neue stated, that quiqui appears in some editions of Cicero's pro P. Sestio, but not in manuscripts.
 * Plautus, Aulularia, actus IV is sometimes given as a references for a nominative singular quīquī. The text however does depend on the edition.
 * Dictionaries and old grammars mention an adjectivally used feminine nominative *quaequae and a neuter *quodquod (or *quocquod). These forms however are unattested, while quisquis and quidquid (or quicquid) are used adjectivally too.

Quotations

 * Plautus, Menaechmi, actus V. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. II of five volumes, 1917, p. 446f.:
 * Quisquis es, quidquid tibi nomen est, senex, summum Iovem deosque do testes—
 * Whoever you are, whatever your name is, old gentleman, I call Heaven and God on high to witness—


 * Plautus, Menaechmi, actus V. In: Plautus with an English translation by Paul Nixon, vol. II of five volumes, 1917, p. 486f.:
 * venibunt quiqui licebunt, praesenti pecunia.
 * For sale ... your own price ... cash down!
 * All will go for whatever they'll fetch at ready money prices.