I.adj. plur. indecl. [kindr. with Sanscr. kati, quot, like tot, Sanscr. tati].
I. Lit., how many, as many, as: quot sunt? Sce. Totidem, quot ego et tu sumus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 6; id. Most. 3, 1, 114: “quot homines, tot sententiae,” Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 14: “quot homines, tot causae,” Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 140: “quot dies erimus in Tusculano,” id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: “quot calamitates!” id. ib. 1, 35, 86: “quot orationum genera esse diximus, totidem oratorum reperiuntur,” id. Or. 16, 53: “idque declarat totidem quot dixit, scripta verbis oratio,” id. Brut. 96, 328; Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 47; Hor. S. 2, 1, 27; Juv. 7, 225.—
B. For quotiens; “toties, quot,” as often as, Liv. 2, 13, 2.—
II. Transf., in specifications of time, all, each, every: quot diebus, every day, daily: quot mensibus, every month, monthly: quot annis, often as one word, quotannis (in inscrr. also, QVOD ANNIS), every year, yearly, annually: “quot Kalendis petere cibum,” Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 3: “quot mensibus fodere,” Cato, R. R. 43, 2: “quotannis tributa conferre,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131: “hic illum vidi juvenem, Meliboee, quot annis,” Verg. E. 1, 43: “quot annos singula milia,” Caes. B. G. 4, 1: Pomponius scribit, nihil interesse, utrum in annos singulos, vel quot annis; an in singulos menses, vel quot mensibus; “an in singulos dies, vel quot diebus legatur,” Dig. 36, 2, 12: “sedulum quot dies obibam culturae sacrorum ministerium,” App. M. 11, p. 267, 29.