(not -cunque), quaecumque, quodcumque,
pron rel.,
whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, every one who, everything that, all
that
: quicumque is est, whosoever: quoscumque de te queri audivi, quācumque potui ratione placavi,
all I have heard complain I have satisfied in every possible way: petere fortunam, quaecumque accidat, what fortune soever,
Cs.—In tmesi: Cum quibus erat cumque, eis sese dedere, T.: quam se cumque in partem dedisset.—As subst n.,
whatever, however much: quodcumque diceret: quaecumque ille fecisset:
quodcumque est lucri, i. e. all the profit, Ph.: quodcunque hoc regni, all
this authority, V.—When the relat. introduces successive clauses, only qui is
repeated: quaecumque navis ex Asiā, quae ex Syriā, quae,
etc.—In abridged clauses, any whatever, every: quae sanari
poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo (i. e. omni ratione,
quaecumque erit): qui quācumque de causā ad eos venerunt, Cs.:
quocumque modo, S.—Of quality, howsoever
constituted, of whatever kind: quaecumque mens illa fuit, Gabini
fuit.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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