Latin

Pronoun

ecquis m, f, ecquid n (interrogative pronoun)

1. Is there anyone who?, Is there anybody who?

   Ecquis me vivit fortunatior?

   Is there another man as fortunate as I am?

   Heus ecquis in villa est?

   Is there anybody in the farm?

   Percontabor ecquis adolescentem nouerit.

   I will ask whether any man did know the young fellow.

   Ecquo de homine?

   Of what man?

   Inuestigent ecqua virgo sit, an mulier.

   Let them look whether there is any maiden or woman.

Synonyms

• (Is there anyone who?): num quis

Derived terms

• ecquisnam

Declension

References

• ecquis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ecquis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ecquis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.